Flora of North America species comparison

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Vancouveria hexandra

northern inside-out flower, northern vancouveria, white inside-out-flower
Leaves

falling when fruits maturing, 2-3-ternately compound, 8-30 cm;

petiole 3-25 cm, pilose at base.
Leaflet

blades narrowly to broadly ovate to rhomboid or rounded pentagonal, often 3-lobed, base cordate, margins entire to slightly sinuate and not conspicuously thickened, apex rounded to notched;

surfaces abaxially sparsely hairy, adaxially glabrous.
Inflorescences

peduncle 2-3 dm;

pedicel 1-3 cm, glands absent.
Flowers

5-30;

bracteoles 6-9, white, yellowish when dried, dotted with glandular trichomes;

sepals 6, white, 5-12 mm;

petals 6, white, yellowish when dried, 4-6 mm, margins entire, petal apex strongly reflexed, with nectar-bearing pocket, nectaries golden;

filaments stipitate-glandular.
Seeds

1-6, black, lunate to reniform, 3 mm.
Follicles

greenish to light brown, 10-15 mm including beak, beak 2-3 mm, stipitate-glandular.
2n

= 12.

Vancouveria hexandra
Phenology Flowering and fruiting spring–summer (May–Jul).
Habitat Redwood and Douglas-fir forests, deep shade
Elevation 100-1700 m (300-5600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA
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Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Berberidaceae > Vancouveria
Sibling taxa
V. chrysantha, V. planipetala
Synonyms Epimedium hexandrum
Name authority (Hooker) C. Morren & Decaisne: Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 2: 351. (1833)
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