15 cm ruler for scale

 

Erect growth habit with slender stems. Leaves glaucous to pale green, twice divided, leaflets deeply cleft, largest leaf we measured was 10 cm long and 4 cm wide. Showy pink flowers with yellow tips, tubular in profile, measured at 15 mm long.

Plant of the boreal forest, we've seen them on rocky outcrops and on disturbed soil along roadways. In Saskatchewan, we haven't found them south of Meadow Lake, or La Ronge.

Height listed in Budd's Flora from 30 to 75 cm, we measured plants to 60 cm tall.

We have grown this in our garden from seed, quite ornamental, but was such a nuisance self-seeder we have ruthlessly weeded it out.

Took the above photos June 26th, on rocky outcrops in spruce forest, La Ronge Provincial Park, about 650 km north of our home in Regina, SK.