Montana Field Guide

Annual. Stems erect, 10–40 cm, branched above, puberulent below. Leaves linear, 5–25 mm long with small, purple stipular glands. Inflorescence a panicle with erect branches; upper leaves and bracts awned and glandular-serrulate. Flowers yellow; sepals lanceolate, 4–7 mm long, glandulaar-serrulate; petals 5–9 mm long, pubescent at the base; styles 2–3 mm long, united to above middle. Capsule 3–5 mm long, splitting into 5 2-seeded segments (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Grasslands, roadsides, pine woodlands; plains (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

POLLINATORS
The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap: Bombus bifarius (Thorp et al. 1983).