Mt. Hood Pussy-paws - Cistanthe umbellata
Other Names:
Spraguea umbellata
Native Species
Global Rank:
G4G5
State Rank:
S4
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Widespread but never (?) common where it occurs. Grows well on disturbed ground, as along trails and edges of parking lots.
Taprooted perennial with a branched caudex, sometimes mat-forming. Stems ascending, 1–7 cm, leafless, 1 per rosette. Leaves all basal, petiolate; the blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 5–20 mm long. Inflorescence hemispheric, umbellate, densely flowered, 1–3 cm across. Flowers: petals 4, white, unequal, 3–5 mm long; sepals 2, sometimes pinkish, orbiculate persistent, scarious, 3–8 mm long, becoming larger in fruit; stamens 3; style exserted (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Sandy or gravelly, sparsely vegetated, granitic soil of fellfields, scree slopes; subalpine to alpine, rarely lower (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).