Balsamorhiza hispidula |
Balsamorhiza rosea |
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hairy balsamroot, hispid balsamroot |
rosy balsamroot |
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Habit | Plants 6–40 cm. | Plants 6–10(–30) cm. |
Leaves | blades bright green, narrowly lance-elliptic to lanceolate, (6–)15–25(–40) × (3–)5–9+ cm (1–2-pinnatifid, primary lobes lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10–45 × 2–15 mm, secondary lobes usually divergent, antrorse), bases ± cuneate, ultimate margins usually entire (± revolute and/or thickened, often ciliate), apices acute to attenuate, faces ± hispidulous to hirtellous (gland-dotted as well; veins ± scabrous). |
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Basal leaves | blades gray-green, oblong to lance-ovate, 3–10(–20) × 2–5 cm (rarely pinnately lobed), bases weakly cordate or truncate, margins crenate to serrate, apices rounded to acute, faces finely strigose to moderately scabrous (usually gland-dotted as well). |
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Involucres | campanulate to hemispheric 10–25 mm diam. |
hemispheric, 18–20 mm diam. |
Ray laminae | 15–40 mm (abaxially glabrous). |
(becoming brick-red, often drying to pink or rose, and chartaceous) (8–)15(–25) mm (hispidulous abaxially; cypselae strigose). |
Outer phyllaries | lanceolate to linear, 12–20 mm, not surpassing inner, apices acute to attenuate (margins often ciliate). |
deltate or ovate to lanceolate, 8–12 mm, not surpassing inner. |
Heads | borne singly. |
usually borne singly. |
2n | = 38. |
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Balsamorhiza hispidula |
Balsamorhiza rosea |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May. | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Basalt scablands and desert-steppe areas, juniper and sagebrush scrublands | Dry hills |
Elevation | 1800–2500 m (5900–8200 ft) | 300–400 m (1000–1300 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WY
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OR; WA
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Discussion | Distribution of Balsamorhiza hispidula is highly disrupted in the southern part of its range. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
In a hybrid swarm involving Balsamorhiza rosea and B. careyana, B. rosea remains relatively uncontaminated; the dominance among the hybrids appears to lie with B. careyana. A record of a hybrid between B. rosea and B. careyana from the Spokane area is doubtful. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 98. | FNA vol. 21, p. 96. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Balsamorhiza > subg. Balsamorhiza | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Balsamorhiza > subg. Balsamorhiza |
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Synonyms | B. hookeri var. hispidula | B. hookeri var. rosea |
Name authority | W. M. Sharp: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 22: 137, fig. 3, plate 5. (1935) | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 56: 478. (1913) |
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