Common Names: Common Spring-gold, Gold Stars, Gold Fields

No varieties

Note time of year (spring) and habitat, open dry areas, shrub-steppe.
Ray flowers of 5-13 petals, usually 8 somewhat broad with a rounded tip.
Leaves alternate with tuft hair on leaf axils. linear sometimes toothed.

east Central Cascades
TRAIL: Umtanum Ridge; Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park
HABITAT: Shrub-steppe
ELEVATION: 585 m (1,920 ft.); 800 m (2,625 ft.)
BLOOM TIME: 22-APR; 04-MAY