Appearance
General: Mat-forming perennial herbs, the stems ascending, dichotomously branched, grayish overall with dense, fine, stellate pubescence.Leaves: Leaves in rosettes at the end of the branches, linear to oblanceolate, 1-3 cm. long and 1.5-4 mm. broad, entire to serrate.
Flowers: Flowers in umbels on peduncles 1-7 cm. long; umbels 2- to 8-flowered, the pedicels 3-40 mm. long, subtended by an involucre of 4-10 lanceolate bracts 3-8 mm. long; calyx united its length, 6-7 mm. long, the 5 lobes deltoid, acuminate; corolla bright red to magenta-purple, the tube equaling the calyx, the 5 lobes ovate and wedge-shaped, rounded, 4-5 mm. long; stamens 5, opposite the corolla lobes, attached above mid-length on the corolla.
Fruits: Capsule opening by 5 valves
Naming
Douglasia nivalis Lindl.Douglasia dentata S. Watson
Douglasia nivalis var. dentata (S. Watson) A. Gray
Douglasia nivalis var. nivalis Lindl.
Distribution
Wenatchee Mountains of Kittitas County, Washington, north into Chelan and Douglas Counties.Habitat
Sagebrush slopes to alpine ridges and talus, often in serpentine soils.References:
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