Distribution: Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to California.
Habitat: Meadows, forest edge, forest openings, and light forest understory from low to middle elevations.
Flowers: May-July
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps
Perennial from a woody rhizome, 4-10 dm. tall.
Leaves mostly toward the base, upper and middle cauline leaves strongly reduced; leaves long-petiolate, with broad, palmately-cleft blade up to 2 dm. long and 2.5 dm. wide, the segments again coarsely toothed or lobed; leaves green above, thinly white-woolly below.
Heads several in a raceme; involucre 10-17 mm. high, the disk 12-30 mm. wide; disk flowers yellow, ray flowers wanting; pappus of numerous capillary bristles.
Achene prominently several-nerved.
Publication: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 19: 50. 1883.
Cacaliopsis nardosmia (A. Gray) A. Gray ssp. glabrata (Piper) Piper
Luina nardosmia (A. Gray) Cronquist [HC]
Luina nardosmia (A. Gray) Cronquist var. glabrata (Piper) Cronquist [HC]
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Cacaliopsis nardosmia in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Cacaliopsis nardosmia checklist entry
OregonFlora: Cacaliopsis nardosmia information
E-Flora BC: Cacaliopsis nardosmia atlas page
CalPhotos: Cacaliopsis nardosmia photos
