Distribution: Occurring west of the Cascades crest in lowland western Washington; British Columbia to Washington; also from the Great Lakes region east to the Atlantic Coast.

Habitat: Roadsides, fields, lawns, wastelots, and disturbed forest understory ta low elevations.

Flowers: March-May

Origin: Introduced from Eurasia

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps

Rhizomatous perennial, 0.5-5 dm. tall, with large basal leaves and scaly-bracted stem, the scales purplish.

Leaves basal, long-petioled, developing well after the flowering stems, the blade cordate to sub-obicular, with deep, narrow sinus, toothed and shallowly lobed, 5-20 cm. long and wide, green and glabrous above, permanently white-woolly below.

Heads solitary, large; involucre 8-15 mm, its bracts herbaceous, in a single series and equal; rays pistillate and fertile, pale yellow, numerous, short and narrow; disk flowers yellow, perfect but sterile; pappus of capillary bristles.