Growing on prairie with Erigeron caespitosus


15 centimetre ruler for scale

Flowers have a pointed keel

Many stems from the caudex, scapes to 48 cm high. Foliage is densely silky pubescent, foliage greyish-white. Up to 60 leaflets, arranged in whorls of 3 to 6. Leaflets are lanceolate, to 2 cm long and 8 mm wide. Flowers are bright pink, fading to bluish-purple, to 15 mm long, and have a pointed keel. The infloresence is in a long spike, to 15 cm long.

Habitat is grassland and open areas in woodlands.

Photos taken Jun 30th, grassland on the slopes of the Qu' Appelle River Valley, about 30 km north of our home in Regina, SK.

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