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      - Order - Solanales - Solanales
        
        Family - Waterleaf Family - Hydrophyllaceae
        
        Species - Dwarf Waterleaf - Hydrophyllum capitatum

Dwarf Waterleaf - Hydrophyllum capitatum

Native Species

Global Rank: G4?
State Rank: S4

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C-value: 4

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General Description

Fibrous-rooted perennials. Stems ascending to erect, 5–25 cm. Herbage sparsely hirsute or strigose. Leaves long-petiolate; blades 3–10 cm long, pinnately divided into 7 to 11 sessile, ovate, simple or lobed leaflets. Inflorescence a densely-branched, capitate, cyme, shorter than the subtending leaf. Flowers campanulate; calyx hirsute, lobed to near the base, 4–6 mm long; corolla light blue, 7–10 mm long, tube shorter than the lobes, ciliate at points of filament attachment; stamens and style exserted. Capsule with 1 to 3 seeds (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Our plants are variety capitatum.

Species Range

Present

Range Comments

BC, AB south to CA and CO (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database

Number of Observations: 105

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Recency

(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)

Habitat

Vernally moist, sometimes disturbed soil or talus in open forest, woodlands, grasslands, meadows, thickets; valleys to lower subalpine (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

References

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- Lesica, P., M. T. Lavin, and P. F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
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Citation for data on this website:
Dwarf Waterleaf — Hydrophyllum capitatum. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on January 15, 2019, from http://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=PDHYD08030