Alternate name: Pale Goat-chicory Family: Asteraceae, Aster view
all from this family Description Several leafless stalks, each
with a yellow flower head at the top, grown from a basal rosette
of linear, fleshy, bluish-green leaves. Variable appearance.
Habit: native perennial herb, subshrub, or shrub; milky sap;
long, erect, hairless, hollow flower stalks; clumping; deep
taproot. Height: 8-32 in (20-80 cm). Leaf: basal, waxy, grass-
like, vertical, pale mid-vein, blue-green to dark green, to 18
in (46 cm) long, to 1 in (25 mm) wide, margins smooth (rarely
toothed or lobed). Flower: dandelion-like, solitary, 1/2-2 in
(1-5 cm) wide; 15-150 yellow rays; rays in the center are very
short, sometimes darker; no disk. Fruit: dry beaked seed,
1/4-1/2 in (6-12 mm) long, tapering; held in airy white sphere,
to 1 in (25 mm) wide. Flower May to July. Habitat Open mountain
areas: coniferous forests, sagebrush. Range Native to the
northern Great Plains, from Alaska east to Ontario, south to
California and Arizona mountains