Balsamorhiza sericea |
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silky balsamroot, silvery balsamroot |
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Habit | Plants 10–30(–40) cm. |
Basal leaves | blades silvery, lanceolate or lance-ovate, 9–30 × 2–7 cm (1-pinnatifid, lobes oblong to oblanceolate, 5–35 × 3–17 mm), bases cuneate, ultimate margins usually entire (plane or weakly revolute, obscurely, if at all, ciliate), apices rounded to acute, faces densely sericeous. |
Involucres | campanulate to hemispheric, 11–20+ mm diam. |
Ray laminae | 15–20 mm (adaxially puberulous on veins). |
Outer phyllaries | broadly ovate to triangular-ovate, 12–20 mm, slightly surpassing inner, apices acuminate to attenuate (margins not ciliate). |
Heads | borne singly. |
Balsamorhiza sericea |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Serpentine outcrops, among surface rocks, in crevices, hillsides, dry streamsides among cobbles |
Elevation | 400–1800 m (1300–5900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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Discussion | Balsamorhiza sericea hybridizes with B. deltoidea. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 96. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Balsamorhiza > subg. Balsamorhiza |
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Name authority | W. A. Weber: Phytologia 50: 358. (1982) |
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