Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; central and southeastern Washington to California, east to adjacent Idaho; also in eastern North America.

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

Flowers: April-July

Origin: Introduced from Europe

Growth Duration: Annual

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps

Slender winter annual, 3-12 dm. tall.

Basal leaves obovate, entire, 1-3 cm. long; cauline leaves up to 7 cm. long, pinnatifid or bipinntifid, reduced upward, the segments remote, the edges glandular.

Heads naked-pedunculate, 1-5 on each branch of the inflorescence; involucre 1.5-2 cm., narrow and cylindric, the bracts imbricate in several series, tapered to a point; flowers all tubular, the tubes slender with long, narrow lobes, pink, lavender or purple; receptacle flat, covered with long, slim, chaffy bracts; inner pappus of bristles 7-10 mm. long, outer of short scales.

Achene with a ring of dark, spreading bristles on the broad end.