Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sieversia campanulata (Greene) Rydberg
Erythrocoma campanulata Greene, Leaflets 1: 178. 1906.
Perennial, with a thick short rootstock; stem 1-2.5 dm. high, 1-3 -flowered, purple-tinged, finely pilose and with a few scattered long hairs; basal leaves interruptedly pinnate, 3-7 cm. long; rachis silky-pilose; principal leaflets rather crowded, obovate-cuneate, 1-1.5 cm. long, pilose on both sides, 3~6-clef t more than half way down into linear-oblong divisions ; bractlets linear or linear-subulate, about 5 mm. long; hypanthium hemispheric, strongly reddish-purple, pilose and viscid; sepals broadly ovate or deltoid-ovate, acute, 6-7 mm. long; petals broadly oval, rounded at the apex, yellowish, tinged and veined with crimson.
Type locality: Olympic Mountains, Washington. Distribution: Olympic Mountains.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1913. ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(5). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
