Taprooted perennial. Stems erect, 10–35 cm. Herbage gray-tomentose; stems yellowish-setose below. Leaf blades lanceolate to ovate, 3–10 cm long, pinnately lobed ½- to 3/4-way to the midvein into linear-lanceolate, dentate, forward-pointing segments; petioles setose. Heads 1 to 9. Involucre turbinate, 9–16 mm high; phyllaries linear-lanceolate, tomentose, black-setose, eglandular. Rays 10 to 60; ligules 7–12 mm long. Achenes dark green to brown, 4–7 mm long, narrowed above but not beaked (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Our plants are subspecies
modocensis.