Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to Baja California, east to Montana, Wyoming and Utah.

Habitat: Ponderosa pine forest openings to alpine slopes.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, butterflies, beetles, wasps

Annual to perennial, glabrous, fleshy herbs from a much-branched, thickened crown, the branches often numerous, spreading, forming mats up to 15 cm. broad

Leaves all basal, glabrous, tufted, forming rosettes, obovate-spatulate to oblanceolate, broadly petiolate, 1.5-5 cm. long.

Flowers in heads up to 4 cm. broad on peduncles 1-10 cm. tall, these leafless or with 1-several very small bract-like leaves; sepals 2, persistent, white- to pinkish-bordered, 4-10 mm. broad; petals 4, oblong, about equal to the sepals at flowering, pinkish to white, quickly withering; stamens 3, opposite the largest petals; style 1.

Capsule flattened.