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General:
Perennial herb from a stout, woody stem-base or short rhizome; stems erect, solitary, simple or rarely few-branched above, nearly glabrous to sparsely or moderately white woolly-hairy, 20-50 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves thick, lanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, stalked, 6-20 cm long including the stalk, 0.5-3 cm wide, entire or sometimes callous-toothed, cobwebby-hairy when young but nearly glabrous at flowering time; stem leaves similar, lanceolate, progressively reduced upwards, becoming unstalked.
Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, solitary or rarely 2-4 on stalks, sparsely to densely white-woolly; involucres 10-16 mm tall; involucral bracts oblanceolate to lanceolate, densely white woolly-hairy and long-hairy, margins translucent, black-tipped; bracteoles numerous, sometimes nearly as long as the involucral bracts, black tipped; ray flowers orange, mostly 15-22 mm long; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits:
Achenes oblong, nerved, glabrous; pappus of white hairlike bristles.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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