Balsamorhiza hookeri | |
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Balsamorhiza hookeri in flower on Badger Mountain, Douglas County Washington | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Balsamorhiza |
Species: | B. hookeri |
Binomial name | |
Balsamorhiza hookeri | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Balsamorhiza hookeri (Hooker's balsamroot) is a North American species of perennial plant in the family Asteraceae. It grows in the Great Basin and neighboring regions in the Western United States. [2] It is found in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. [3] [4] [5]
The leaves are compound pinnate, with the leaflet divisions also divided or deeply lobed. Basal leaves are hairy and may be up to 16 inches (41 cm) long. [2] There may be one to several stems, which are leafless and hairy, and topped by one flower each. [2] [6]
It blooms from April to July. Flower heads are 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.6 cm) wide, and sunflower-like, with 10–21 fringe-tipped ray flowers and numerous disc flowers. The flower bract has long hairs. [2] [7] [8]
It grows to 9,000 feet (2,700 m) in dry, grassy meadows in sagebrush steppe and montane plant communities in the Great Basin. [2] It is common at much lower elevations in central Washington State scablands. [8]
It tends to grow in rockier habitats than its cousin, arrow-leaf balsamroot ( Balsamorhiza sagittata ). [2] It hybridizes with arrow-leaf balsamroot, which has arrow shaped leaves. [2] The result is a plant with leaves that are arrow shaped, but also deeply divided. [2]
Eriophyllum lanatum, with the common names common woolly sunflower, Oregon sunshine and golden yarrow, is a common, widespread, North American plant in the family Asteraceae.
Balsamorhiza is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae known commonly as balsamroots. These are perennials with fleshy taproots and caudices bearing erect stems and large, basal leaves. Atop the tall stems are showy yellow sunflower-like blooms. Balsamroots are native to western North America.
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Balsamorhiza sagittata is a North American species of flowering plant in the tribe Heliantheae of the family Asteraceae known by the common name arrowleaf balsamroot. Also sometimes called Oregon sunflower, it is widespread across western Canada and much of the western United States.
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