General: Perennial herb from a fibrous-rooted short, simple or slightly branched woody stem-base, occasionally with a few short slender stolons; stems erect, solitary or sometimes several, few-branched upwards, 10-70 cm tall.
Leaves: Basal leaves oblanceolate to elliptic or oblong, stalked, 2-20 cm long including the stalk, 0.4-4 cm wide, nearly entire to toothed, glabrous; stem leaves lanceolate, deeply toothed or lobed, progressively reduced upwards and becoming unstalked.
Flowers: Heads with ray and disk flowers, few to several in a clustered, flat-topped inflorescence; involucres 3-9 mm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate, green or purplish-tipped, glabrous to moderately woolly-hairy, margins translucent, hairy at tips; bracteoles few, inconspicuous; ray flowers yellow, mostly 5-10 mm long, rarely lacking; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits: Achenes oblong, ribbed, glabrous or sometimes finely hairy; pappus of white hairlike bristles.
Moist forests, meadows and streambanks in the lowland, steppe and montane zones; common throughout BC, except absent on the Queen Charlotte Islands; N to AK, YT, NT, E to PQ and S to GA and OR.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
