15 cm ruler for scale

Flower heads with female flowers in above photo

Flower heads with male flowers in above photo

Inner involucral bracts pale brown

Base of outer bracts with a large brown spot

Stem leaf in above photo

Basal leaf in above photo

Erect plants with flower heads upright or nodding, male and female flowers on separate plants. Involucre 5 mm long, outer bracts with brwon spot at their base, inner peteloid bracts light brown or straw coloured. Flower heads measured at 8 mm diameter. Stem leaves reduced upwards, sessile, linear, up to 11 stem leaves on a stem. Basal leaves 3-nerved, elliptical, basal leaf highlighted in photo above was 17 cm long (including petiole) and 2 cm wide (pressed flat).

Listed as uncommon in Checklist of Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan.

Height listed in Budd's Flora to 50 cm, we measured plants to 53 cm tall.

Habitat is moist soil in the boreal forest.

The above photos were taken on July 5th, moist, grassy roadside, 450 km northeast of our home in Regina, SK.