E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial herb with a stout taproot and a simple to branched woody base; stems ascending to erect, glabrate to hairy, 3-35 cm tall.

Leaves:
Mainly basal, sparsely to more often densely silky-hairy, often less hairy or greenish above, leaves usually 2-3 times palmately compound, reduced and sometimes entire above.

Flowers:
Heads disciform, few to numerous in a clustered or slightly branched or narrow inflorescence; involucres cup-shaped, 3-6 mm tall; involucral bracts broadly lanceolate to egg-shaped, sparsely to moderately hairy, the margins brownish, dry and somewhat papery; receptacles glabrous; female flowers 4-10; disk flowers 8-25.

Fruits:
Achenes glabrous.