Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains.

Habitat: Widespread in dry, open places from the foothills to middle elevations in the mountains.

Flowers: May-July

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Biennial, Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, butterflies, wasps, sawflies

Biennial or short-lived perennial from a taproot, with a single, erect, stout stem 2-12 dm. tall, sometimes surrounded by several ascending, smaller stems; herbage often with spreading bristles and glandular hairs.

Leaves narrowly elliptic, pointed, with 1 or 2 pairs of small leaflets at the base of the blade; petioles, but not blades, reduced upward.

Inflorescence elongate, densely bristly, the lower flower clusters with leafy bracts; calyx divided nearly to the base, lobes 5; corolla dull white, 5-lobed, 3-6 mm. long and broad, the filaments conspicuously exerted, hairy near the middle; style 2-cleft.

Fruit a capsule.