© Alfred Cook (Photo ID #29270)
General:
Perennial herb from dense fibrous roots; stems 3-15 cm tall, purplish-glandular-hairy; several to many threadlike, leafless stolons to 10 cm long, with small, rooting rosette at ends.
Leaves:
Basal leaves in a rosette, oblanceolate to spoon-shaped, 0.5-2 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, entire, fringed with coarse, spiny hairs and a tooth-like point at tips; stem leaves numerous, alternate, reduced upwards.
Flowers:
Inflorescence terminal, of 1 to 3 flowers; petals bright yellow, wedge-egg-shaped, 6-12 mm long, 5- to 9-veined, narrowed to a broad, claw-like base; calyces bell-shaped, 3-4.5 mm long, joined to ovary for part of length, the free hypanthium absent, the calyx lobes 5, triangular to oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-4.5 mm long, greenish, glandular-hairy, ascending; stamens 10.
Fruits:
Capsules, 4-10 mm long; seeds brownish, about 0.6 mm long, nearly smooth.
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
1786 | 604 | 2300 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
21 | 0 | 91 |
Aspect (degrees) |
262 | 0 | 360 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
2 | 0 | 5 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
43 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
BAFA | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BAFA(34), ESSF(3), ICH(1), IMA(2), SWB(2) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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