Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; southeastern Alaska to California, east to Idaho, western Montana, western Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada.

Habitat: Streambanks and moist fields to mountain meadows and slopes.

Flowers: April-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, butterflies, beetles

Stiff-hairy perennial from thickened roots, the several stems branched, erect to decumbent, 2-6 dm tall.

Leaves mostly basal, long-petiolate, the blades pinnately compound, usually with 5 irregularly toothed or lobed, pointed leaflets; cauline leaves alternate, the divisions deep, the ultimate segments linear.

Pedicels single-flowered, up to 15 cm long; sepals 6-9 mm long, with soft hairs, usually reflexed, often purplish-tinged, early-deciduous; petals 5, yellow, 9-18 mm long; nectary scale glabrous, fan-shaped, 0.5-1 mm long, the lateral margins attached along the lower third; receptacle spherical, up to 7 mm long, hairy; stamens 50-70; pistils 20-50.

Achenes elliptic-obovate, compressed, 3.5 mm long, smooth; stylar beak straight, 2.5-4 mm long.