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

General:
Perennial herb from a fibrous root and a short, woody stem-base; stems erect, solitary to several, simple, glabrous except sometimes woolly-hairy in the inflorescence, 10-35 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate, usually shallowly lobed, stiff-hairy with short, forked hairs, 4-15 cm long, 6-25 mm wide; stem leaves lacking.

Flowers:
Heads with strap-shaped flowers, solitary; involucres 7-10 mm tall; involucral bracts subequal, the inner ones lanceolate, glabrous or stiff-hairy, the outer ones reduced to small bractlets; ray flowers yellow.

Fruits:
Achenes spindle-shaped, the outer ones smooth with a crown of short scales, the inner ones roughened; pappus of short or long, barbed bristles.