Lewisia rediviva |
Lewisia kelloggii |
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bitter root, bitterroot lewisia, resurrection flower |
Kellogg's lewisia |
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Taproots | gradually ramified distally. |
gradually ramified distally. |
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Stems | procumbent to erect, 1–3 cm. |
erect, 0.5–5 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 withering at or soon after anthesis, ± sessile or abruptly or gradually narrowed into broad petiole, blade spatulate to orbiculate, flattened, 1–6.5(–9) cm, margins entire, apex obtuse, truncate, or retuse; cauline leaves absent. |
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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. |
with flowers borne singly on peduncles; bracts 2, ovate to oblong, 5–12 mm, margins glandular-toothed, apex acute. |
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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. |
sessile, not disarticulate in fruit; sepals 2, decussate with bracts, resembling 4-merous calyx, ovate-lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–12 mm, herbaceous, margins irregularly toothed, sometimes glandular, apex acute; petals (5–)6–9(–12), white, obovate to oblanceolate, 10–15 mm; stamens 8–15(–26); stigmas 3–5. |
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Capsules | 5–6 mm. |
8 mm. |
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Seeds | 6–25, 2–2.5 mm, shiny, minutely papillate. |
12–15, 2 mm, minutely tuberculate. |
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2n | = 26, 28. |
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Lewisia rediviva |
Lewisia kelloggii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | |||||
Habitat | Sandy or gravelly, usually granitic or volcanic substrates, near melting snow | |||||
Elevation | 1300-2400 m [4300-7900 ft] | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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CA; ID |
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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.) |
Lewisia kelloggii is known only from the central Sierra Nevada, California, and a disjunct population in the Sawtooth Range, Idaho. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 484. | FNA vol. 4, p. 481. | ||||
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Synonyms | L. kelloggii subsp. hutchisonii, L. yosemitana, Oreobroma kelloggii, Oreobroma yosemitanum | |||||
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 368. (1814) | K. Brandegee: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 4: 88, plate 4. (1894) | ||||
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