Distribution: Occurring in the Olympic and Cascades mountains in Washington; Alaska to California, east to Nunavut and Colorado, also in northeastern Canada; Asia.

Habitat: Talus, scree, moraines, sandy or gravelly slopes, subalpine to alpine.

Flowers: July-September

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps

Tap-rooted, glabrous and glaucus perennial, about 1 dm. tall, the juice milky; stems several, erect or ascending, branched or simple.

Basal leaves numerous, spatulate to orbicular, up to 8.5 cm. long including the petiole, and 2.5 cm. wide.

Heads several, narrow, erect, 9-12 flowered; involucre cylindric, 8-13 mm. high, its outer bracts less than half as long as the 9-11 inner ones; corollas all ligulate, yellow, 7-9 mm. long and 1.25-1.5 mm. wide.

Achenes 4-7 mm. long, golden brown, with 10-13 ribs.