Wyethia amplexicaulis
Mulesear Wyethia

Family: Asteraceae [Compositae](Sunflower family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Ski Hill, openly wooded dry hillside

Flowers:

one terminal flower or more per stem (up to 5); ray flowers bright yellow; involucre glabrous

Leaves:

herbage glabrous, resinous-varnished; leaves simple, alternate; basal leaves enlarged, elliptic to elliptic-ovate or lanceolate-elliptic, not cordate or sagittate at base; short petiolate; cauline leaves smaller and often sessile

Plant:

perennial. Poultice of warmed, pounded roots applied to arthritic and rheumatic pain by the Okanagan-Colville.

Habitat:

open slopes and dry meadows from foothills to middle elevations in the mountains

Distribution of species:

eastern Cascades

Distribution of genus: