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, usually branched above, glabrous except sometimes woolly-hairy in the inflorescence, 10-80 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate, 4-35 cm long, 5-40 mm wide, glabrous or stiff-hairy with simple hairs, deeply and distinctly lobed to occasionally entire; stem leaves with minute, scaly bracts.

Flowers:
Heads with strap-shaped flowers, terminal in a several-headed inflorescence; involucres 7-13 mm tall; involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, graduated; ray flowers yellow.

Fruits:
Achenes spindle-shaped, not beaked, weakly-nerved, 4-7.5 mm long; pappus of feathery bristles with dry scales at the base.