Hare-foot locoweed growing in mountain big sagebrush steppe of Yellowstone National Park about 8 miles east of Mammoth and to the south of the Grand Loop Road, Park County, Wyoming. In early season condition, hare-foot locoweed is distinguished by a spring flowering habit of tight heads of flowers each with mostly magenta petals, a keel with a distinct beak, a densely whitish sericeous calyx with shorter dark hairs especially towards the calyx lobes, and an acaulescent (stemless) growth habit in with the basal pinnately compound leaves are silky sericeous.
Resting in a large white oak overlooking the meadow. Discovered by blue jays but unbothered.