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Botanical Description

van Houtte (syn. D. land folium, D. tetrandrum, D. viviparum). Flowering stems 30-60cm high, sturdy. Leaves oblanceolate, to 30cm or more in length, more or less erect, pale green and minutely glandular-hairy. Flowers with four or five petals, to 2.5cm long, magenta, lavender, or rarely white, the tube and stamens maroon and yellow, in umbels of up to eighteen, summer. Alaska to California, in wet habitats usually in forest, in California up to 3000m. D.j. subsp. pygmaeum is less than half-sized, heavily glandular-pubescent and with four-petalled flowers. California only at high altitudes.

a, D. clevelandii; b, D. jeffreyi; c, D. meadia; d, D. pulchellum;