Distribution: Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California.
Habitat: Moist meadows and drier slopes from the lowlands to middle elevations in the mountains.
Flowers: May-July
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, flies, beetles
Usually glabrous perennial with milky juice and a thickened root, the stem 1-8 dm. tall.
Leaves mostly near the base, entire to deeply laciniate-pinnatifid.
Heads solitary or terminating the elongate, naked branches; involucre 12-25 mm. high, the bracts variable, from narrow and tapered to broad and acuminate, imbricate; corollas all ligulate, yellow; pappus of about 10 barbellate awns, these chaffy-flattened for about 1-2 mm. at the base.
Achenes 5-6 mm. long, narrowed upward, but not beaked.
Publication: Jahresber. Pollichia. 22–24: 309. 1866.
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ssp. laciniata – cutleaf microseris, cut leaved scorzonella
Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California. -
ssp. leptosepala – cut-leaved silverpuffs, cutleaf silverpuffs Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Puget Sound lowlands to the Willamette Valley.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Microseris laciniata in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Microseris laciniata checklist entry
OregonFlora: Microseris laciniata information
E-Flora BC: Microseris laciniata atlas page
CalPhotos: Microseris laciniata photos
