Montana Field Guide

Stems erect, simple, 10–100 cm. Herbage hirsute, stipitate-glandular above. Leaves linear to linear-oblanceolate, 1–11 cm long. Inflorescence of solitary or few, short-pedicelate heads in upper leaf axils. Involucre obovoid, 6–11 mm high; phyllaries ca. 8, stipitate-glandular. Rays 3 to 10; ligules 1–8 mm long. Disk flowers 2–16; corolla 2–5 mm long. Achenes compressed, ca. beakless, ca. 3 mm long (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Roadsides, other disturbed sites (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).