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General:
Perennial herb from a short, branched stem-base; stems erect or ascending, solitary or occasionally a few clustered together, rarely branched above. sparsely long-hairy with multicellular hairs and sometimes glandular, 5-25 cm tall
Leaves:
Basal leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, 3-5 nerved, glabrous to long-hairy, short to long-stalked, 1-6 cm long; stem leaves 1-4 pairs (rarely absent), the blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 1.5-7 cm long, 0.4-2.0 cm wide, usually toothed, glabrous to long-hairy, unstalked or short-stalked.
Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, solitary (rarely 3), usually nodding, the bases long-hairy with yellow hairs; involucres 10-18 mm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate, with short-stalked glands, the tips fringed; ray flowers yellow, 9-15, with conspicuous teeth; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits:
Achenes stiff-hairy and moderately glandular, 4-6 mm long; pappus white, finely-barbed.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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