Agoseris aurantiaca (Hook.) Greene

Stems 0. Leaves erect to decumbent; petioles purplish, petiole margins ciliate to hairy; blades 7–38 cm, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, margins entire or laciniately pinnatifid, lobes 2–4 pairs, linear to lanceolate, spreading to antrorse, lobules usually inconspicuous to subequaling lobes, rarely lacking, faces glabrous and ± glaucous or sparsely villous. Peduncles ± elongating after flowering, 8–40(–80) cm, glabrate, or apically villous to lanate, eglandular. Involucres cylindric to obconic or campanulate, 2.5–3 cm at maturity. Phyllaries in 2–3 series, green or medially rosy purple, often with purple-black spots, blotches, and/or midstripes, or nearly all black, subequal to unequal, margins ciliate, faces glabrous or villous, eglandular; outer mostly spreading, adaxially glabrous or villous; inner erect, elongating after flowering. Receptacles epaleate. Florets 15–100; corollas usually orange, sometimes yellow, pink, red, purple, or white, tubes (4–)7–9 mm, ligules 4–12 × 1–3 mm; anthers 2–5 mm. Cypselae ± dimorphic, 8–18 mm, bodies cylindric to fusiform or obconic, 6–9(–11) mm, abruptly or gradually tapered to slender beaks (2–)5–10 mm, lengths mostly equaling bodies; ribs strongly ridged, straight, glabrous or scabrous; pappi in 2–3 series, 9–15 mm. 2n = 18, 36.

Wet meadows, bogs, muskegs, stream and lake margins, montane to alpine habitats, or ± drier sites of open forests and mountain slopes, various soils, often disturbed areas, roadsides; at elevations from 200-3,600 metres

The leaves are eaten cooked like spinach. They can be eaten raw or cooked. The root gum is used as a chewing gum.

Plants can be grown from seed. The seed are sown in a nursery and usually germinate in 2-6 weeks at 15°C. Plants can also be grown by careful division of the clump in spring.