White-flowered hawkweed is a wildflower with single stems, sometimes leafless or with reduced stem leaves to 100 cm in height. The stems are more strongly haired towards the base. The basal leaves are oblanceolate, narrowed to a petiole, with moderately long hairs. The leaf margins are entire to wavy and individual leaves range from 4-15 cm long and 1.2-4.5 cm wide. The leaves of the upper stems are sessile and much reduced in size.
The inflorescence is a corymb, with several to many small flower heads. The rays are white or creamy, with 13-34 flowers. The involucres range from 6-11 mm high and are narrow in outline and blackish-green in color. The involucral bracts are variable in texture, ranging from slightly glandular to hairy or nearly hairless.
White-flowered hawkweed is a plant of open woods or moist to dry, open hillsides.
White-flowered hawkweed is found from the Yukon to Saskatchewan, and south to California and Colorado.
In the Columbia River Gorge, it is found between the west end of the gorge and The Dalles between the elevations of 100'-4600'.
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