Distribution: Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington and California; also in eastern North America.

Habitat: Roadsides, fields, waste ground.

Flowers: June-September

Growth Duration: Biennial, Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps

Usually glabrous perennials, the 1-5 stems 10-50 cm. tall, usually procumbent and branched above.

Leaves basal and cauline, the blades 2-8 cm. long, oblong, 1-3 pinnately lobed, the ultimate lobes cylindric and fleshy.

Heads 10-50 in flat-topped inflorescences; involucre bracts oblong to narrowly triangular, unequal, dark greenish to brownish with pale to dark brown scarious margins, 0.2-1 mm. wide; ray flowers strap-shaped, white, 10-34, 10-16 mm. long; disk corollas yellow, 2.5 mm. long; pappus none.

Achenes pale to dark blackish-brown, with resin glands over twice as long as wide.