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General:
Perennial herb from stout, subterranean stolons with tube-like tips; stems erect, white woolly-hairy, 30-90 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves heart-shaped, long-stalked, 6-14 cm long, hairy; lower stem leaves with long, winged stalks, clasping, hairy; upper leaves becoming lanceolate, unstalked, hairy.
Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, 3-5; involucres 8-18 mm tall; involucral bracts triangular, awl-like, glandular-fringed; ray flowers yellow; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits:
Achenes black, 10-ribbed, those of the ray flowers glabrous, those of the disk flowers hairy; pappus of the discoid, those of the disk flowers feathery.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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