E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial herb from a fibrous-rooted, branching woody stem-base; stems erect, solitary to several, branched above, densely hairy with minute loosely-spreading hairs throughout, 10-60 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves tufted and persistent, oblanceolate or broader, long-stalked, 5-25 cm long, 8-30 mm wide, toothed; weakly 3-nerved, hairy with short, fine, spreading hairs; stem leaves similar, alternate, progressively reduced upwards.

Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, numerous in an open, often elongate inflorescence, nodding at the apex or sometimes on more evidently1-sided branches; involucres 4-6 mm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate, obtuse to rounded, glabrous, margins hairy near the tips; ray flowers yellow, about 5-9, 4.5-6 mm long; disk flowers yellow, 5-9.

Fruits:
Achenes short-hairy; pappus of numerous white hairlike bristles.