Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington from Mount Rainier south; central Washington to California (not in northeastern Oregon).

Habitat: Generally around volcanic mountains above timberline.

Flowers: July-September

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Review Group 1 in Washington (WANHP)

Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps

Perennial from a taproot and branching base, up to 1.2 dm. tall, the several leafless flowering stems lax.

Leaves clustered toward the bottom of the flowering stems, succulent, densely glandular, oblanceolate, coarsely toothed or lobed, up to about 6 cm. long.

Heads solitary, the disk 1.5-3 cm. wide; involucre 10-15 mm. high, finely glandular, the bracts lance-oblong, up to 4 mm. wide; rays about 21, 7-15 mm. long, yellow and pistillate; disk flowers yellow and perfect; pappus of several translucent scales, attached in a ring at the base, lacerate, about 2 mm. long.

Achenes linear, hairy, about 1 cm. long.