A white, woolly, perennial with erect stems and often clustered from creeping rhizomes. Has a strong sagebrush odor.
Woolly perennial; stems few to numerous, erect; leaves gray-green or greenish-white, hairy, linear to broadly elliptic, many divided into narrow lobes; flower heads of disc flowers, petals yellow, sometimes red-tinged, stemless or stemmed and drooping.
Habitat
Found on exposed slopes, forests, woodlands, and sandy floodplains.
Flower Characteristics
Flower heads are in small tight elongated clusters among the leaves near the ends of the stems. Each small flower head is a cup of hairy bracts surrounding disc flowers and less than 1/4 inch wide.
Leaf and Stem Characteristics
Leaves vary from smooth to toothed to lobed and are 1-1/4 to 4-1/2 inches long and 9/16 inch wide.
Fruit and Seed Characteristics
Fruits are dry, smooth, broadly cylindrical achenes.