Stems 5–25 cm, often clustered on the caudex. Leaves basal and cauline, 2–10 cm long; blades deeply pinnately lobed into serrate, lanceolate segments 2–5 mm long. Inflorescence villous, densely flowered, 1–10 cm long; bracts linear with 1 to 2 pairs of linear lobes. Flowers: calyx 7–11 mm long, 5-lobed, the lobes equal, 2–3 mm long; corolla purple, 13–22 mm long; galea 6–10 mm long with a short beak 1–2 mm long. Capsule 8–12 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Our plants are variety
purpurea Parry
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus vagans,
Bombus appositus,
Bombus bifarius,
Bombus fervidus,
Bombus flavifrons,
Bombus frigidus,
Bombus melanopygus,
Bombus mixtus,
Bombus rufocinctus,
Bombus sylvicola,
Bombus occidentalis, and
Bombus kirbiellus (Plath 1934, Macior 1974, Wilson et al. 2010, Miller-Struttmann and Galen 2014, Williams et al. 2014).