Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across North America to the Atlantic Coast.

Habitat: Roadsides and other disturbed areas, often where dry.

Flowers: June-September

Origin: Introduced from central US

Growth Duration: Annual

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, flies

Coarse, erect, branching annual 3-10 dm. tall, the herbage and flowers stellate-pubescent, the calyces, stems, and often the leaves covered with yellow spines 3-12 mm. long.

Leaves petiolate, 6-20 cm. long and 2-7 cm. wide, deeply pinnately lobed, the lobes broad and round-tipped, and may again be shallowly lobed.

Inflorescence of several 3- to 15-flowered racemes, attached along the stem or opposite the leaves, elongating up to 1.5 dm. in fruit; corolla rotate, light yellow, with 5 short lobes, 2-3 cm. wide; stamens 5, with one anther much longer than the other 4; style solitary; ovary superior.

Fruit a berry