Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to Washington, east to the northern Rocky Mountains.

Habitat: Wet meadows, grassy alpine slopes, and rich northern woods.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, butterflies, flies, beetles

Fibrous-rooted perennial from a short rhizome, without pubescence by flowering time.

The lowermost leaves well developed, 5-20 cm. long and 8-30 mm. wide, the oblanceolate blade tapering to the petiole; cauline leaves few, strongly reduced upward, becoming sessile toward the top of the stem.

Heads 3-21 in a compact inflorescence; involucre 5-8 mm. high, the bracts very conspicuously black-tipped, about 13, rarely 21; bracteoles narrow but well developed, also black tipped; disk 8-13 mm. wide; rays 7-15 mm. long, yellow.