Dodecatheon conjugens Greene
slimpod (Bonneville shootingstar; desert shootingstar; slimpod shootingstar)
Primulaceae
Introduction to Vascular Plants
slimpod (Bonneville shootingstar; desert shootingstar; slimpod shootingstar)
Primulaceae
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Species Information
General:
Plants fibrous-rooted; roots whitish; bulblets absent.
Leaves:
Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate to narrowly ovate, base gradually to abruptly tapering to the short, broadly winged petiole, entire, surfaces usually glandular-puberulent (at least along the margins) or rarely glabrescent, 3-13 (20) cm.
Flowers:
Inflorescences of 1-7 (10) flowers; involucral bracts lanceolate, glandular-puberulent, 3-10 mm. Flowers long-stalked; corolla tube and throat yellow, with a fine, wavy, reddish ring around the throat; corolla lobes pink (rarely white), 7-25 (35) mm; pollen sacs usually purplish-brown, sometimes yellowish or purple-spotted; calyces green, sometimes purple-speckled, usually glabrous (sometimes glandular), 5-12 mm; filaments usually distinct to their base (sometimes slightly connate), yellow or purplish-spotted to wholly dark purplish-brown; connective purplish-brown, usually with some yellow (at least apically), transversely rugose; stigma not enlarged relative to the style; pedicels glandular-puberulent, 1-5 cm. . Flowering Apr-Jun.
Fruits:
Capsules tan, cylindric, circumcissile, 8-12 mm.
Stems:
Scapes usually glandular-puberulent on the lower portion (rarely entirely glandular), 5-30 cm tall.
Source: The Vascular Flora of British Columbia, draft 2014.
Author: Jamie Fenneman
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Dodecatheon conjugens
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
| Site Information |
Value / Class |
||
|
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
1291 | 745 | 2563 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
21 | 0 | 88 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
194 | 90 | 315 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
2 | 2 | 4 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
34 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
PP | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
ESSF(11), IDF(1), IMA(1), MS(6), PP(13) | ||
|
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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Habitat and Range
Moist seeps, grassy slopes, and meadows, usually in sagebrush communities or dry coniferous forests, in the steppe and montane (rarely subalpine) zones. Common in se BC (Rocky Mts., s Rocky Mtn. Trench); east to SK, south to CA, NV, WY.Source: The Vascular Flora of British Columbia, draft 2014.
Author: Jamie Fenneman
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Dodecatheon conjugens var. viscidum (Piper) H. Mason ex H. St. John
Dodecatheon viscidum Piper