15 cm ruler for scale
Erect plant with long flowering stems. One (occassionally to 3) heads per flowering stem. Flowers white with narrow white ray florets, flower heads measured to 3.5 cm in diameter. Flowers early June. Stems and leaves somewhat rough to touch. Basal leaves linear to oblanceolate, basal leaf highlighted above was 14.5 cm long (including petiole) and 1.5 cm wide. Stem leaves sessile, reduced in size upwards, alternate, linear-lanceolate, basal leaf highlighted in photo was 4 cm long and 1 cm wide. Leaves entire, hairy both sides with short stiff hairs.
Common on dry prairie and hillsides.
I use the description in Taxonomic Reminder for Recognizing Saskatchewan Plants to identify this species - 1) stems erect 2) leaves reduced 3) 20-40 cm tall 4) 1 headed 5) ligules white 6) flowers in June.
Height listed in Budd's Flora from 20 to 30 cm. We measured plants to 40 cm tall.
Photos taken June 9th, grassy slopes of the Qu' Appelle Valley, 40 km north of our home in Regina, SK.
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