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

General:
Perennial herb from an enlarged, simple or forked stem-base and a fleshy root; stems erect, 1-3, glabrous or somewhat glandular coarse-hairy, 2-8 dm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate to elliptic or egg-shaped, 3-30 cm long, long-stalked, entire to pinnately cut or toothed with the teeth pointed backwards, the blade obtuse or abruptly sharp-pointed; stem leaves much reduced, usually lanceolate or linear and bractlike.

Flowers:
Heads with strap-shaped flowers, 1-30 in a flat-topped inflorescence; involucres 8-21 mm tall, bell-shaped or top-shaped; involucral bracts more or less glandular-hairy or coarse-hairy (in ours) or glandless, the outer ones narrowly deltoid or lanceolate, the longest less than 1/2 the length of the 10-15 inner ones, these lanceolate or linear, more or less tapering to a slender tip at the apex; ray flowers yellow, 9-18 mm long.

Fruits:
Achenes light to dark brown, 3.5-7.5 mm long, slender, mostly 10-ribbed, tapering to a slender tip (in ours) or sometimes short-beaked above; pappus white, of hairlike bristles.