Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest and in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; southern British Colombia to California, east to the northern Great Plains and Colorado.

Habitat: Dry, open places in the valleys, plains and foothills, occasionally higher.

Flowers: April-July

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Biennial, Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies

Usually a short-lived perennial, the 1-several stems 1-5 dm. tall, with silky hairs and small blisters.

Basal leaves tufted, spatulate or oblanceolate, rounded or blunt-tipped, 2-8 cm. long and 4-15 mm. wide; cauline leaves more or less reduced.

Inflorescence an elongate, narrow panicle, with short, bracteate spikes along the main stem; calyx divided to the base, the 5 lobes bristly; corolla white, broad and showy, 5-lobed, the limbs 8-12 mm. wide, the tube equaling the calyx, with hairy appendages at the top of the tube opposite the corolla lobes; style surpasses the nutlets.

Nutlets 4, lance-ovate, 3-5 mm. long, attached to the style.