Grindelia squarrosa - 15 cm ruler for scale

Lower leaves are petioled

Upper leaf

A low growing to erect plant, red-stemmed, hairless. Upper stem often many branched. Leaves are sparsley toothed, upper leaves stemless, oblong 3 cm long, 1 cm wide. Lower leaves spatulate, 7 cm long, 1 cm wide. Flower heads yellow to 3 cm diameter, flowers late July through September. The bracts of the flower heads are very sticky - giving rise to its common name - Gumweed.

Very common to dry grassland and prairie roadsides.

The above photos were taken August 26th roadside in the Qu'Appelle Valley, 30 km north of Regina, SK, and September 2nd in a highway ditch near Bulyea, about 100 km north of our home in Regina, SK.

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