Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to the Rocky Mountains.

Habitat: A weed of dry waste places and roadsides.

Flowers: June-July

Origin: Introduced from Europe

Growth Duration: Biennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, hummingbirds

: Coarse biennial from a stout taproot, the stem 2-7 dm. tall, freely branched, woolly throughout when young, becoming partly glabrate.

Basal and lowermost cauline leaves petiolate, with large, ovate-oblong blades 6-25 cm. long, pinnately shallowly lobed, the lobes finely dentate; cauline leaves abruptly reduced to sessile, foliaceous bracts.

Inflorescence an open panicle, with verticles of flowers scattered along the branches, subtended by bracts 1-2 cm. long; calyx 1 cm. long, woolly; corolla pale yellow, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, the upper lip arched and hooded; stamens 2, shortly exerted.

Nutlets 4.