General:
Perennial herb from a short, often stout rhizome; stems erect, simple or sometimes branched, few to several, sparsely to moderately short or long soft-hairy, sometimes sparsely glandular-hairy above, exuding milky juice when broken, 3-45 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves persistent, tufted, narrowly elliptic, 1-16 cm long, 0.4-3.0 cm wide, entire or nearly so; stem leaves few or lacking, reduced, bractlike.

Flowers:
Heads with strap-shaped flowers, solitary or several; involucres 5-10 mm tall; involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, subequal, greyish, long soft-hairy, without glandular hairs; ray flowers yellow.

Fruits:
Achenes nerved, 2-3 mm long; pappus tawny or sometimes white.

Notes:
Easily confused with H. gracile which has glandular-tipped hairs on the stalks of the heads and involucres.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia