General: Perennial herb from a fibrous-rooted, short, ascending or horizontal rhizome or woody stem-base; stems erect, solitary, branched above, glabrous to nearly glabrous, 20-70 cm tall.
Leaves: Basal leaves heart-shaped, round, elliptic to egg-shaped or oblanceolate, stalked, 2-20 cm long including the stalk, 1-6 cm wide, toothed, lightly white woolly-hairy at first, soon becoming glabrous; stem leaves few, oblanceolate, raggedly toothed, progressively reduced upwards, becoming unstalked.
Flowers: Heads few to many on hairy stalks in a clustered inflorescence; involucres 5-8 mm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate, sometimes purplish-tipped, glabrous to sparsely long-hairy, margins translucent; bracteoles few, inconspicuous, purplish-tipped; ray flowers yellow, mostly 6-10 mm long; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits: Achenes oblong, glabrous; pappus of white hairlike bristles.
Moist meadows, streambanks, and forests from the montane to subalpine zones; common in S BC east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains, becoming rare northward; E to S MB and S to MO, CO and CA.
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)
