Distribution: Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington, where widely distributed; British Columbia to California, east to the Great Plains and Great Lakes region.

Habitat: Meadows and seasonally moist open areas from low elevations to the subalpine.

Flowers: May-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, butterflies, flies, beetles

Stout, fibrous-rooted perennial from a very short crown; stems solitary, 2-7 dm. tall; plants covered with white, loose hairs when young, but these missing in older plants except in the leaf axils.

Usually entire, elliptic to broadly lanceolate, the basal ones petiolate, the blade and petiole 6-25 cm. long and 1-6 cm wide; cauline leaves progressively reduced upward, becoming sessile toward the top of the stem.

Heads several to numerous in a rather congested inflorescence; involucre 5-10 mm. long; rays 6-15 mm. long, usually yellow, occasionally cream.

A Senecio growing on dry ground, with a fairly tall, single, upright stem and large, entire leaves is probably this species, especially if the leaves are lightly covered with white, tangled hairs.