Distribution: Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, also in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon and east to adjacent west-central Idaho.

Habitat: Meadows, forest openings and edge, and lightly wooded slopes at middle elevations in the mountains.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, butterflies, wasps, sawflies

Robust perennial from a taproot, the few stems green, 5-20 dm. tall.

Leaves numerous, petiolate, the blade up to 12- cm. long and 7 cm. wide, pinnately few-lobed or cleft; basal leaves wanting, the lowest cauline leaf 1-4 dm. above the stem base, reduced upward.

Inflorescence conspicuously black-glandular, of several helicoid panicles in a loose, flat-topped cluster; calyx divided nearly to the base, lobes 5; corolla bell-shaped, greenish-white, deciduous, 5-7 mm. long and wide; filaments strongly exerted; style elongate, cleft nearly to the middle.

Fruit a capsule, seeds fairly numerous.