General: Perennial herb from a taproot; stems simple or branched, erect or decumbent at base, 10-50 cm tall, hairs long and simple or often branched.
Leaves: Basal leaves oblanceolate, 1-4 cm long, 2-13 mm wide, entire or denticulate; stem leaves mostly 10-20, egg-shaped to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 0.5-3 cm long, 0.3-1.2 cm wide, entire to toothed; densely hairy, lower leaf surfaces with predominently short-stalked or unstalked hairs, the hairs starlike mainly with 8 or fewer rays.
Flowers: Racemes several- to many-flowered, occasionally with solitary flowers or lateral racemes in the axils of upper leaves; flower stalks 3-20 mm long, appressed to axis of the inflorescence, hairy; petals pale to deep yellow, rounded, 4.5-6 mm long; sepals 2-3.5 mm long, soft-hairy.
Fruits: Silicles, 7-20 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, lance-elliptic, plane or twisted, soft-hairy or glabrous; styles 0.3-1.5 mm long; seeds 20-50, about 1 mm long.
Mesic to dry forest openings, meadows, rocky slopes and talus slopes from the montane to alpine zones; frequent throughout BC east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains; N to AK, YT and NT, E to PQ and S to N WA, ID, MT, NM and AZ.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
