Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to Oregon, east to Idaho.

Habitat: Sagebrush deserts to ponderosa pine forest openings at middle elevations.

Flowers: May-July

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, butterflies, flies, beetles, apomixis?

Stout perennial from a taproot and crown, the 1-several stems 2-8 dm. tall; herbage sometimes sparsely gray-woolly, sometimes with yellow bristles.

Basal and lower cauline leaves 1-4 dm. long, pinnately or bi-pinnately toothed or parted, with lanceolate segments; upper leaves few and much reduced.

Heads few or many in a flat-topped inflorescence, 8-25 flowered; involucre 9-17 mm. high, covered with glandless yellow or green bristles; inner involucre bracts 6-10; corollas ligulate, yellow

Achenes olive or yellowish, narrowed to the tip.