Shortleaf alpinegold

Perennials, 30–60 cm. Stems 1–7, sparsely lanate. Leaves mostly cauline; blades green, lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 5–11 cm, margins sinuate to toothed (teeth triangular, obtuse), faces sparsely to moderately glandular-villous; distal cauline leaves ± oblanceolate, gradually reduced. Heads 3–4. Involucres obconic to hemispheric, 10–16 mm diam. Phyllaries 8–10 mm, outer lanceolate, apices acuminate. Ray florets 10–23; corolla tubes hairy, laminae yellow, 10–14 mm. Disc corollas yellow. Cypselae 6–8 mm; pappus scales unequal, shorter 1–2 mm, longer 2–3 mm. 2n = 38.

Flowering late spring–summer. Common after fires, open sites in coniferous forests, mostly coarse-grained volcanic or granitic soils; 1500–2700 m; Calif.

Hulsea brevifolia grows in the Sierra Nevada.