Boykinia jamesii). Clump-forming and herbaceous, 15-20cm tall in bloom. Leaves mainly basal, long-stalked, the blades kidney-shaped, 5-6cm broad, crenate to shallowly lobed; stem leaves smaller and shorter-stalked. Flowers in short dense racemes, bright purplish-red, about 2cm across with distinctively long-stalked petals, early summer. Alberta to Wyoming, Montana, Utah and South Dakota, at montane to alpine levels, on cliffs, screes and rocky slopes. i s16 2 T.j. var. heucheriformis (syn. T. heucheriformis) differs only in very small ways and is usually included in T. jamesii. In the wild it tends to be found on limestone and to be somewhat taller with slightly smaller flowers, but the differences are not clear cut. [Pl.488]
