notes Growing in a small wet meadow within lodgepole pine forest. .
Back when I photographed this it keyed to Camissonia subacaulis, but since then the species previously in that genus have been split and rearranged into a number of smaller genera, ...among them Taraxia, with just 3 species. This species has glabrous, entire leaves and stigma at roughly the same level as the anthers.
What appears to be a long pedicel here is actually the long sterile tip of an inferior ovary. You can see a bulge near the bottom of the ovary where the fertile (=ovule/seed-bearing) portion of the ovary begins. Like its more common lower elevation and cismontane relative Taraxia (Camissonia) ovata, most of the fertile part of the ovary/fruit here is at or below ground level.
I guess that when the mostly underground fruits mature the seeds are dispersed by ants, or perhaps by small subterranean mammals like voles, pocket gophers, etc