© Alfred Cook (Photo ID #11149)
General:
Perennial herb from a freely branched stem-base and fibrous roots; flowering stems erect, 5-25 cm tall, brownish- or yellowish-hairy, at least above.
Leaves:
Basal leaves in a rosette, linear-oblanceolate to spoon-shaped, 1-4 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, smooth or nearly so; stem leaves 3 to 7, unstalked, smaller above.
Flowers:
Inflorescence usually of a single, terminal flower, nodding at first; petals bright yellow, 7-15 mm long, 5- to 7-veined; calyx lobes egg-shaped to lanceolate, 3-5 mm long, greenish to reddish, often glandular-hairy, fringed, spreading; stamens 10.
Fruits:
Capsules, 7-12 mm long.
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
1853 | 1675 | 1955 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
7 | 0 | 15 |
Aspect (degrees) |
347 | 20 | 315 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
4 | 2 | 6 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
3 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
BAFA | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BAFA(3) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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