Home    Family Index    Species Index    Glossary

Dodecatheon jeffreyi van Houtte      Jeffrey's Shooting Star

Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 15-25 cm long, crenate with a minute callus usually in each notch; scape 25-50 cm tall; flowers several in an umbel; corolla lobes 1-2.5 cm long purple just below the sinuses of the lobe; filaments mostly free, purple; anthers yellow to reddish; capsules ovoid, circumsessile; on wet ground in the meadows in the mountains.

dodecatheon_jeffreyi3.jpg (68040 bytes)      dodecatheon_jeffreyi.jpg (90316 bytes)