General:
Low shrub; stems branching, twigs brittle, 20-60 (or rarely 90) cm tall.

Leaves:
Alternate, numerous, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, glandular-sticky to nearly glabrous or sometimes woolly-hairy, 2-6 cm long and 0.5-4 mm wide.

Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, in small terminal clusters, in well-developed plants forming an elongate cluster; involucres 7-11 mm tall; involucral bracts graduate, in 3-6 series, narrow, somewhat leafy; ray flowers yellow, 1-5 or wanting from some heads, 6-12 mm long; disk flowers yellow, 4-12, 7-12 mm long.

Fruits:
Achenes glabrous; pappus of whitish, hairlike bristles.

Notes:
This species was recently ranked by the BC Conservation Data Centre as SX (extirpated) since it has not been collected in over 50 years (Douglas 1998). Collections by Hardy from Keremeos (cited by Scoggan [1979]) and Parris from Spences Bridge (cited by Douglas [1995]) have been reidentified as Ericameria nauseosus.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Haplopappus bloomeri A. Gray
Haplopappus bloomeri subsp. sonnei (A. Gray) H.M. Hall
Haplopappus bloomeri var. angustatus A. Gray
Haplopappus bloomeri var. sonnei (A. Gray) Greene