Distribution: Known from Spokane County in Washington; southeastern British Columbia to eastern Washington, Idaho and Nevada, east to Great Plains and Great Lakes region.

Habitat: Dry, open places, often in sandy soil, from low to middle elevations.

Flowers: June-September

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps

Glabrous perennial with milky juice from a deep-seated, creeping root, the stems branched, grooved, 1.5-6 dm. tall.

Leaves alternate, linear, up to 4 cm. long and 3 mm. wide, the upper reduced to awn-shaped scales.

Heads terminating the branches, mostly 5-flowered, the flowers pink or rarely white, all ligulate; involucre 9-16 mm. high, cylindric, usually with 5 principal bracts and several much-reduced outer ones; receptacle naked; pappus of numerous capillary bristles.

Achenes glabrous, sub-terete, several nerved, 6-7 mm. long.