Idaho Barren Strawberry

Waldsteinia idahoensis Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 180. 1903
Perennial, with a short stout rootstock; petioles nearly glabrous or with scattered hairs, especially at the base and below the blades, about 1 dm. long; leaf-blades orbicular, slightly 5-7-lobed, cordate at the base, coarsely and doubly crenate-dentate, sparsely hirsute above and on the margins, 2-5 cm. broad; scapes 1-2.5 dm. long, glabrous or nearly so; inflorescence glandular-puberulent, 2-7-flowered; bracts lanceolate or ovate, some of them clasping, ciliate, 2-6 cm. long; pedicels drooping, 5-20 mm. long; hypanthium obconic, 4 mm. long; sepals triangular-lanceolate, acute, minutely glandular-puberulent, 5-6 mm. long; petals yellow, orbicular, equaling the sepals; achenes 2, oblong, canescent, 2.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Lochsa River at the mouth of Lempke's Creek, Idaho. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.