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

General:
Perennial herb from a taproot; stems erect, simple, solitary, sparsely to moderately soft-hairy, 4-25 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate to linear or lanceolate, tapering to the stalk, 1-11 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, conspicuously long-hairy; stem leaves similar, reduced upwards.

Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, solitary, the disks 10-20 mm wide; involucres 8-10 mm tall; involucral bracts densely long-hairy, the tips sometimes glandular, not graduated; ray flowers 60-125, blue, 10-15 mm long, 1-2 mm wide; disk flowers mostly 3-5 mm long.

Fruits:
Achenes 2-nerved, densely stiff-hairy; pappus double, the inner of 10-20 bristles, the outer of a few very slender and inconspicuous scales.