Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia south to California.

Habitat: Dry, open places at low elevations, often along roadsides or other disturbed sites.

Flowers: June-September

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Annual

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, beetles, moths

Coarse, tar-scented annual, 2-12 dm. tall, with spreading, stiff hairs and stalked glands throughout.

Leaves linear or linear-oblong, 3-18 cm. long and 3-12 mm. wide, entire or lightly toothed, rather crowded, especially below.

Heads single in a narrow inflorescence or in tight clusters; involucre ovoid, 6-12 mm. high and nearly as wide, the bracts in a single series and of equal length, and enclosing the achenes of the ray flowers; rays usually 13, 3-7 mm. long, yellow; disk flowers fertile, yellow, surrounded by a row of bracts;

Achenes flattened.