Distribution: Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Habitat: Meadows and open, moist hillsides, foothills to mid-elevations in the mountains.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, butterflies, flies, beetles

Stout, glabrous, fibrous-rooted perennial 5-20 dm. tall, stems clustered.

Numerous, not tufted toward the base, not much reduced upward, the lower leaves oblanceolate, short-petiolate, early deciduous, the others lanceolate, tapering to a short petiole, 5-15 cm. long and 1-4 cm. wide, sharply toothed.

Heads numerous on short peduncles, almost cylindric, the disk 3-7 mm. wide; involucre 6-8 mm. high, its bracts about 8 or about 13, often black-tipped; rays few, about 5 or 8, 5-8 mm. long, yellow.

Look for a tall, upright plant with large, sharply toothed leaves the length of the stem.