General:
Perennial herb from a stout branched rhizome; stems 1 to several, clustered, erect, 5-50 cm tall, unbranched, often purplish, nearly smooth to somewhat long-hairy, long-woolly in the inflorescence.
Leaves:
Leaves all or mostly basal, stalked, lanceolate, 4-7 cm long, pinnately lobed to deeply cleft, the lobes toothed or cleft and the ultimate divisions again toothed, the leaf axis broad; stem leaves 0 to 2 or 3, alternate, reduced.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a terminal spike of several to many flowers, the spike compact at first then elongating, subtended by 1 or 2 bracts similar to the leaves but much smaller, the flowers spirally arranged; corollas pink to purple or two-toned, 15-25 mm long, 2-lipped, the upper lip often darker, somewhat arched, hood-like, 6-13 mm long, beakless but with a pair of slender teeth near the tip, the lower lip often spotted, 3-lobed, shorter than the upper lip; calyces 8-12 mm long, white-woolly to smooth, 5-toothed, the teeth lanceolate, 3-5 mm long; stamens 4, the filaments smooth.
Fruits:
Capsules, oblong, abruptly short-beaked, 9-14 mm long; seeds several.
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
1556 | 475 | 2300 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
23 | 0 | 300 |
Aspect (degrees) |
278 | 6 | 360 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
3 | 1 | 8 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
99 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
BAFA | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BAFA(48), BWBS(3), CMA(1), ESSF(10), MH(4), SWB(30) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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