Common name: Short-beaked agoseris / Pale agoseris / Yellow flowered false dandelion
(species with yellow blooms; Silene parryi also present in photo centre); alternately, Hieracium spp.
Family: Compositae
Information: Dry grasslands and forests, arid slopes up to the alpine zone; frequent in BC.
Photo: An east facing slope in South Chilcotin Mtns. Provincial Park at an approx. elevation of 2050 m. N. Hewitt, July 28 2019.
Sources and additional resources:
Cormack, R.G.H. 1972. Wild Flowers: Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho National Parks. The Park Naturalists, Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho National Parks. http://parkscanadahistory.com/plants/wildflowers-mountain-1972.pdf Accessed: 2020-05-31.
Klinkenberg, B. (Ed.) 2020. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia [eflora.bc.ca]. https://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Agoseris%20glauca%20var.%20dasycephala Accessed: 2020-05-31.
