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gold-star, spring-gold

Habit Delicate, several-stemmed annual, about 1.5 dm. tall, glabrous except for woolly tufts in the leaf axils.
Leaves

Leaves slightly fleshy, the basal ones oblanceolate or broader, up to 2.5 cm. long and 1 cm. wide, often coarsely toothed;

cauline leaves few, merely linear bracts.

Flowers

Heads on naked peduncles, solitary;

rays 5-13, usually 8, yellow, 4-10 mm. long, individually subtended by the thin involucral bracts, these 3-7 mm. long, in a single series and of equal length;

disk flowers yellow, the disk about 1 cm. wide;

receptacle strongly conic, naked.

Crocidium multicaule

Flowering time March-May
Habitat Dry, open areas from low to middle elevations, especially common in sagebrush.
Distribution
Occurring on both sides the Cascades crest and in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Idaho.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
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