Alternate name: Orange-flower Goat-chicory, Orange Mountain Dandelion

Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family

Description From a basal cluster of leaves grow several leafless stalks with milky sap, topped by coppery-orange flower heads.
Flowers: head about 1" (2.5 cm) wide; flowers of all ray type, those in center of head very short.
Leaves: 2-14" (5-35 cm) long, narrow, broadest above middle, often with a few large teeth.
Fruit: seed-like, with a stalk at tip about as long as the body, topped by fine silvery bristles.
Height: 4-24" (10-60 cm).

Flower June-August.

Habitat Meadows and grassy openings in coniferous forests in the mountains.

Range Western Canada to California and New Mexico.

Discussion This plant is easily recognized. It is the only orange-flowered Agoseris.