General:
Annual herb from a fibrous root; stems erect or ascending, several, simple, glabrous except for the white-woolly hairs in the leaf axils, 5-30 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves somewhat fleshy, 0.3-2.5 cm long, 0.2-1 cm wide, spoon-shaped to oblanceolate or broader, glabrous, stalked, entire to toothed; stem leaves few and reduced, scarcely more than linear bracts, 3-15 mm long, 0.2-1 mm wide, glabrous, entire to toothed.

Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, solitary, hemispheric, bases glabrous; involucres 3-7 mm tall; involucral bracts thin, membranous, oblong or narrowly egg-shaped, fused at the base, abruptly sharp-pointed to obtuse at the tip, glabrous except for the woolly-hairy tip; ray flowers yellow, 5-13.

Fruits:
Achenes densely covered with short, rounded, blunt hairs; pappus of white, deciduous bristles.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia