Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in south-central and southeastern Washington; Washington to California, east to Nevada.

Habitat: Rock outcrops and dry, rocky knolls.

Flowers: April-June

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

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

Perennial with an unbranched crown surmounting a carrot-like root, 1-4 dm. tall.

Basal leaves petiolate, green, scabrous, with prominent net-like veins, the blade deltoid-ovate, 4-29 cm. long and 2-8 cm. wide, sharply serrate, but also with some pinnatifid leaves; stems often with a pair of much-reduced leaves near the base.

Heads solitary; involucres smooth to strongly woolly, the bracts narrowly lanceolate; rays 10-16, 2-4 cm. long.

Achenes glabrous.

Of all the species of Balsamorhiza found in our area, only Balsamorhiza serrata has sharply serrate leaves.