General: Perennial herb from an erect to ascending rhizome; stems erect or ascending, solitary, simple or branched, glabrous below, woolly-hairy above, 5-90 cm tall.
Leaves: Basal leaves usually smaller than the stem leaves, deciduous by flowering time; stem leaves thick, spoon-shaped to oblanceolate, egg-shaped or oblong, broadly stalked to unstalked, 2-25 cm long, 1-10 cm wide, toothed, sparsely to moderately woolly-hairy above and below or nearly glabrous above, not much reduced upwards except in the inflorescence.
Flowers: Heads with ray and disk flowers, up to 4.5 cm across, solitary to several on glabrous to woolly-hairy stalks in a compact inflorescence; involucres 10-25 mm tall; involucral bracts lance-oblong to more linear, green or purplish, margins translucent, sparsely to moderately woolly-hairy; bracteoles numerous, equal to or longer than the involucral bracts; ray flowers yellow, mostly 10-25 mm long; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits: Achenes oblong, faintly nerved, glabrous; pappus of white hairlike bristles.
Moist to mesic sand dunes, beaches and tidal flats in the lowland zone; rare on the N Queen Charlotte Islands; amphiberingian, N to AK, disjunct on the coasts of Labr., NF, PQ, NS and NB, NE Asia.
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)
