General: Perennial herb from a short rhizome and branched stem-base; stems several, erect, 30-100 cm tall, strongly glandular-hairy.
Leaves: Basal leaves several, long-stalked, pinnately compound; leaflets 5 to 9, mostly egg-shaped, 1-5 cm long, coarsely double-toothed, greenish and usually bothglandular-hairy and coarse-hairy but sometimes nearly smooth on both surfaces; stem leaves alternate, few, reduced upward.
Flowers: Inflorescence a compact, narrow, nearly flat-topped, terminal cluster of several to many stalked flowers; corollas pale yellow to cream or whitish, bowl-shaped, the petals 5, oblong-egg-shaped, 5-9 mm long; calyces glandular, 5-lobed, the lobes lance-egg-shaped, 4-8 mm long, alternating with 5 shorter, narrower bractlets; ovaries superior, the styles spindle-shaped and glandular-roughened near the middle; stamens usually 25.
Fruits: Achenes, numerous, lopsided-egg-shaped, 1-1.5 mm long, smooth.
Dry to moist meadows, thickets, rocky grassy slopes and open forests in the steppe and montane zones; frequent throughout BC, except along the coast; N to AK, E to PQ and S to OR, AZ, NM, OK and NJ.
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)
