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

General:
Annual herb from a taproot; stems decumbent to erect, much branched, more or less glabrous, 10-60 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves soon deciduous; stem leaves linear to oblanceolate, stalked below to unstalked above, 2-6 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, entire, glabrous or fringed with stiff hairs on the margins.

Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, several to numerous in an open or spikelike, branched inflorescence; involucres 5-9 mm tall; involucral bracts subequal to moderately graduated, linear-lanceolate to linear spoon-shaped, the inner pale-margined, the outer leafy, the tips obtuse; ray flowers white, drying pinkish to pink-purple, 1.5-2 mm long, barely exceeding the disk flowers; disk flowers yellow.

Fruits:
Achenes appressed-hairy; pappus white, surpassing the disk flowers.

Notes:
Although this species was first collected in 1939 and reported by Eastham (1947) from the Okanagan Valley, it was not recollected again until 1993 along Osoyoos Lake.