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

General:
Perennial herb from a short or more often elongate rhizome and commonly with short, stout stolons; stems erect, usually solitary, leafless or with 1 or 2 reduced leaves, long bristly-hairy and also with starlike hairs and glandular above, exuding a milky juice when broken, 10-60 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate to elliptic, narrowed to a stalked base, 4-20 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, usually long bristly-hairy above, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, entire or slightly toothed; stem leaves greatly reduced.

Flowers:
Heads with strap-shaped flowers, several to many in a relatively small round- to flat-topped inflorescence; involucres 5-8 mm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate, long bristly-hairy, also with blackish gland-tipped hairs; ray flowers orange-red, drying to purple.

Fruits:
Achenes narrowed at the base, 1.5-2 mm long; pappus brownish.