General: Perennial herb from a branched, woody stem-base and often a short taproot; stems erect, several, branched above, 10-40 cm tall, white woolly-hairy but less so with age.
Leaves: Basal and lowermost stem leaves tufted, narrowly oblanceolate to more elliptic, stalked, 1-5 cm long, 0.4-4.5 cm wide, entire to irregularly lobed, strongly white woolly-hairy; middle and upper stem leaves toothed, becoming unstalked and reduced upwards.
Flowers: Heads with ray and disk flowers, several in a rounded inflorescence, with woolly-hairy bases; involucres 4-8 mm tall; involucral bracts unequal, lanceolate, margins translucent, long-hairy, also with a terminal tuft of hairs; ray flowers yellow, 6-13 mm long, rarely lacking; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits: Achenes oblong, ribbed, glabrous; pappus of white hairlike bristles.
Mesic to dry grasslands, shrublands, rock outcrops and scree slopes in the steppe to alpine zones; common in S BC east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains; E to S SK and S to NE, CO and CA.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
