Balsamorhiza deltoidea |
Balsamorhiza sagittata |
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deltoid balsam root, Puget balsamroot |
arrow-leaf balsamroot |
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Habit | Plants 20–90 cm. | Plants (15–)20–40(–65) cm. |
Basal leaves | blades green, deltate or rounded-deltate to triangular-deltate, 10–25+ × 7–15(–20) cm, bases cordate to sagittate, margins usually crenate to dentate (at least near bases), sometimes entire, apices acute, faces usually sparsely hirtellous to hispidulous, sometimes glabrous (usually gland-dotted, sometimes vernicose). |
blades ± silvery to white or gray-green, rounded-deltate or deltate to triangular-deltate, 5–25 × 3–15 cm, bases ± cordate, margins entire, apices acute to attenuate, faces sericeous, tomentose, tomentulose, or velutinous (at least abaxially, usually gland-dotted as well), sometimes glabrescent. |
Involucres | campanulate to hemispheric 15–30+ mm diam. |
hemispheric to turbinate, 12–25 mm diam. |
Ray laminae | 20–50 mm. |
20–40 mm. |
Outer phyllaries | oblong to lanceolate or lance-linear, (12–)30–40(–60) mm, usually much surpassing inner, apices acute. |
lanceolate to oblanceolate or linear, (15–)20–25(–30+) mm, equaling or surpassing inner, apices acute to acuminate. |
Heads | usually borne singly, sometimes 2+. |
usually borne singly, sometimes 2–3+. |
2n | = 38. |
= 38. |
Balsamorhiza deltoidea |
Balsamorhiza sagittata |
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Phenology | Flowering (Mar–)Apr–Jun(–Jul). | Flowering (Apr–)May–Jun(–Jul). |
Habitat | Open hillsides, openings in chaparral or forests | Openings, banks, flats, meadows, ridges, sagebrush scrub, conifer forests |
Elevation | 60–1800(–2400) m (200–5900(–7900) ft) | (100–)900–2500(–3000) m ((300–)3000–8200(–9800) ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SDak
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Discussion | Balsamorhiza deltoidea varies in the crenation of the leaf margins. The variability may stem from an old hybridization with B. hookeri or other species of Balsamorhiza. Otherwise, B. deltoidea shows little significant variability except where it hybridizes with B. careyana in the narrows of the Columbia River Gorge. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Balsamorhiza sagittata grows east of the Cascade-Sierra axis to the Rocky Mountains and Black Hills. It is one of the more spectacular of all spring-flowering plants in the northwestern United States. Hybrids occur along lines of contact between B. sagittata and almost all species of sect. Balsamorhiza except B. macrophylla (a high polyploid). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 95. | FNA vol. 21, p. 95. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Balsamorhiza > subg. Artorhiza | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Balsamorhiza > subg. Artorhiza |
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Synonyms | B. glabrescens | Buphthalmum sagittatum, B. helianthoides, Espeletia helianthoides, Espeletia sagittata |
Name authority | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 351. (1840) | (Pursh) Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 350. (1840) |
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