Distribution: Occurring in scattered locations east of the Cascades crest and in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; Washington to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.

Habitat: Roadsides, fields, ditches, wastelots, and other disturbed open places.

Flowers: August-October

Origin: Introduced from Eurasia

Growth Duration: Annual

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Wind

Sweet-scented, glabrous, tap-rooted annual 0.3-3 m. tall.

Leaves 2-10 cm. long, twice or thrice pinnatifid, the ultimate segments linear or lanceolate.

Inflorescence broad and open, the discoid heads loose, often nodding, borne on short peduncles; involucre glabrous, imbricate, 1-2 mm. high; flowers all fertile, the outer pistillate; pappus none,

Achene glabrous.