Lewisia rediviva |
Lewisia columbiana |
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bitter root, bitterroot lewisia, resurrection flower |
Columbia lewisia, Columbian lewisia |
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Taproots | gradually ramified distally. |
gradually ramified distally. |
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Stems | procumbent to erect, 1–3 cm. |
procumbent to suberect, 10–12(–30) cm. |
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Leaves | basal leaves withering at or soon after anthesis, sessile, blade linear to clavate, subterete or grooved adaxially, 0.5–5 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse to subacute; cauline leaves absent. |
basal leaves evergreen, sessile, blade narrowly linear to linear-oblanceolate, flattened or slightly grooved on adaxial surface, 2–10 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute; cauline leaves absent, or alternate and intergrading with bracts, blade linear, 5–18 mm, margins entire or eglandular-toothed, apex acute. |
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Inflorescences | with flowers borne singly; bracts 4–7(–8), whorled, subulate to linear-lanceolate, 4–10 mm, margins entire, apex acuminate. |
paniculate cymes, 20–100-flowered; bracts alternate proximally, 2 at each flowering node distally, ovate, 2–5 mm, margins toothed to glandular-toothed, apex obtuse. |
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Flowers | pedicellate, disarticulate in fruit; sepals (4–)6–9, broadly elliptic to ovate, 10–25 mm, scarious after anthesis, margins entire to somewhat erose, apex obtuse to rounded; petals 10–19, usually rose to pink, sometimes lavender, sometimes with paler or white centers, or wholly white, elliptic, oblong, or narrowly oblanceolate, 15–35 mm; stamens 20–50; stigmas 4–9; pedicel (1–)3–15(–30) mm. |
pedicellate, not disarticulate in fruit; sepals 2, suborbiculate, 1.5–3 mm, herbaceous at anthesis, margins glandular-toothed, apex rounded to truncate; petals 4–9(–11), white with pink veins to pink to magenta, oblong or obovate, 5–13 mm; stamens 5–6; stigmas 2 or 3; pedicel 5–13 mm. |
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Capsules | 5–6 mm. |
3–6 mm. |
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Seeds | 6–25, 2–2.5 mm, shiny, minutely papillate. |
(1–)3–7, 1.5–2 mm, shiny, shallowly warted. |
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2n | = 26, 28. |
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Lewisia rediviva |
Lewisia columbiana |
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Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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ID; MT; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Native Americans commonly ate the boiled roots of Lewisia rediviva. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 484. | FNA vol. 4, p. 478. | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Calandrinia columbiana, Oreobroma columbianum, Talinum denticulatum | |||||||||||||
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 368. (1814) | (Howell ex A. Gray) B. L. Robinson: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1: 269. (1897) | ||||||||||||
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