Distribution: Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains.

Habitat: Shrub-steppe, grasslands, and other open areas from low to middle elevations.

Flowers: April-July

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, flies, butterflies, beetles, wasps

Large perennial herb from a taproot.

All basal, large with broad or cordate bases, densely grayish hairy.

Heads solitary; top of peduncle and lower part of involucre strongly white-woolly; rays 8-25, 2.5-4 cm. long.

Achene glabrous.

Look for the typically densely hairy, silvery-gray foliage and involucre bracts; leaves are all basal.