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Valeriana capitata

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Authors: Pall.  

Botanical Description

ex Lindl. Stems 15-3 0cm or more high from a thickish rhizome. Basal leaves rosetted, ovate to obovate, 3-6cm long, rarely pinnatifid. Flowers whitt or pink, about 6mm long, in small corymbs, summer. Siberia and Alaska to California. i s16 2 V.c. var. acutiloba (syn. V. acutiloba) is taller and has oblong-spathulate leaves and somewhat larger flowers. Wyoming to Arizona and New Mexico.

V. camosa J .E. Sm. see V. fonkii