Balsamorhiza careyana |
Balsamorhiza incana |
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Carey's balsamroot |
hoary balsamroot, woolly balsamroot |
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Habit | Plants (15–)20–60 cm. | Plants 20–35(–70) cm. |
Basal leaves | blades green, rounded-deltate or deltate to triangular-deltate, 15–25 × 6–15 cm, bases cordate or hastate to truncate, margins usually entire, sometimes crenate (to dentate near bases), apices acute to attenuate, faces finely hispidulous to hirtellous (gland-dotted as well). |
blades white to grayish, lance-ovate to oblong, 10–45 × 3–7(–10) cm (1-pinnatifid, lobes ovate to lanceolate, 20–50 × 5–25 mm), bases broadly cuneate to truncate, margins entire or serrate (plane, not distinctly ciliate), apices obtuse, faces usually densely, sometimes sparsely, tomentose. |
Involucres | hemispheric to turbinate or campanulate, 12–20 mm diam. |
hemispheric, 20–25(–30) mm. |
Ray laminae | 20–30(–40) mm (cypselae strigose or glabrous). |
20–40(–50+) mm. |
Outer phyllaries | oblong to lanceolate or linear, 15–25 mm, usually surpassing inner, apices acute to attenuate. |
ovate to lanceolate or linear, 15–20 mm, shorter than inner, apices acute to attenuate (margins ± ciliate). |
Heads | usually (2–)3+, sometimes borne singly. |
usually borne singly. |
2n | = 38. |
= 38. |
Balsamorhiza careyana |
Balsamorhiza incana |
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Phenology | Flowering (Mar–)May–Jun(–Jul). | Flowering May–Jun(–Jul). |
Habitat | Dry scablands, semi-desert soils, openings in pine forests | Grassy meadows, dry, rocky sites, openings in conifer forests |
Elevation | 500–1000 m (1600–3300 ft) | 1200–2800 m (3900–9200 ft) |
Distribution |
OR; WA
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ID; MT; OR; WA; WY
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Discussion | Hybrids involving Balsamorhiza careyana and B. deltoidea occur near the Columbia River Gorge; intermediates are found to the east and south. In northern Oregon, plants in some populations have glabrous cypselae and some populations are mixed. The hairiness may come from B. rosea; B. rosea and B. careyana may hybridize profusely, producing mostly plants with the stature of B. careyana and with the relatively short, brick-red ray corollas of B. rosea. Hybridization also occurs, occasionally, between B. careyana and B. sagittata; B. careyana also hybridizes with any species of sect. Balsamorhiza with which it comes in contact. Plants called Balsamorhiza careyana var. intermedia usually have crenate leaf margins and glabrous cypselae. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Balsamorhiza incana hybridizes with B. sagittata. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 95. | FNA vol. 21, p. 96. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Balsamorhiza > subg. Artorhiza | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Balsamorhiza > subg. Balsamorhiza |
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Synonyms | B. careyana var. intermedia | |
Name authority | A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 81. (1849) | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 350. (1840) |
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