Helenium autumnale var. grandiflorum
Helenium autumnale var. montanum

General:
Perennial herb from a fibrous root; stems erect, solitary or few, sometimes branched at the base, branched above, minutely hairy with upwardly-curved hairs or nearly glabrous, 0.15-1.2 m tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves soon deciduous; stem leaves alternate, numerous, glandular-dotted, usually wing-margined at the base, lanceolate, narrowing to an unstalked or almost unstalked base, shallowly toothed or nearly entire, 3-15 cm long, 5-40 mm wide.

Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, several to numerous, terminal; involucres 6-8 mm tall; involucral bracts narrow, soon deflexed; ray flowers 10-20, yellow, 3-lobed, 1-2.5 cm long, soon deflexed; disk flowers yellow.

Fruits:
Achenes angled, appressed stiff-hairy on the angles; pappus of egg-shaped or lanceolate, long-pointed scales, broadened at the base, about 1/2 the length of the disk flowers.

Notes:
Two varieties occur in BC:

1. Ray flowers 1-1.5 cm long; plants 15-80 cm tall.................... var. montanum (Nutt.) Fern.

1. Ray flowers 1.5-2.5 cm long; plants 40-120 cm tall..................... var. grandiflorum (Nutt.) T.& G.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Flower Colour:
Yellow

Blooming Period:
Fall

Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Brown
Present over the Fall

Source:  The USDA