Plants 10-40(-70) cm. Stems usu-ally simple, sometimes branched. Leaves 2-4(-6) pairs, mostly cauline (basal often persistent on sterile rosettes); petiolate; blades cordate or subcordate to ovate, 3-10 × 2-10 cm, margins dentate to coarsely dentate, apices acute to rounded, faces puberulent to sparsely villous, sometimes stipitate-glandular (especially adaxial). Heads 1, or 3-5(-10). Involucres broadly campanulate. Phyllaries 10-20, narrowly ovate to lanceolate. Ray florets 6-13; corollas yellow. Disc florets: corollas yellow; anthers yellow. Cypselae dark gray, 5-10 mm, sparsely to densely hirsute (hairs duplex), sometimes stipitate-glandular as well; pappi white, bristles barbellate. 2n = 38, 57, 76, 95, 114. Flowering May-Jul. Conifer forests to subalpine meadows; 500-3000 m; Alta., B.C., Man., N.W.T., Ont., Sask., Yukon; Ariz., Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mich., Mont., Nev., N.Mex., Oreg., S.Dak., Utah, Wash., Wyo.

Plant: Plant 1-5 dm, unevenly glandular and short-hairy; rhizome tip ± scaly; stems 1-few, loose, generally unbranched Leaves: basal often persistent on sterile rosettes; cauline opposite, 2-4 pairs, petioled, reduced upward, blades 3-11 cm, cordate, generally shallowly toothed INFLORESCENCE: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads radiate, 1-5; involucre 15-20(30) mm, obconic to bell-shaped; phyllaries acute to acuminate, ± long-white-hairy, glandular or not Flowers: Ray flowers (6)10-15; ligules < 3 cm, (orange-)yellow; Disk flowers many; corolla soft-hairy, glandular, colored like ligules; anther bases entire or slightly sagittate, tips triangular; style branches flat, tips truncate, very short, hair-tufted Fruit: achene, cylindric, 6-10 mm, short-forked-hairy or glandular 5-10-veined; pappus short-barbed, whitish Misc: High meadows, coniferous forest; 1200-3000 m.