Thrift Mock Goldenweed - Stenotus armerioides
Other Names:
Haplopappus armerioides
Cespitose. Stems mostly simple, erect, 4–15 cm, glabrate, viscid. Leaves basal and cauline, ascending, rigid; blades linear-oblanceolate to oblong, 2–7 cm long, glabrate, viscid, sometimes minutely ciliate. Involucres 7–13 mm high; phyllaries oblong, white below with green tips, glabrous, viscid. Rays 5 to 15; ligules 7–14 mm long. Disk corollas 4–8 mm long, glabrate. Achenes 2–6 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Grasslands, sagebrush steppe, open slopes, confined to calcareous soils west of the Continental Divide; plains, valleys (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).