Species: Dodecatheon austrofrigidum

Southerly Frigid Shootingstar
Species
Plants

A perennial herb up to 45 cm tall. Flowers have five lavender to magenta petals, attached to a white corolla tube with a thin, wavy, reddish to purplish line at the base. Stamens are maroon to dark purple and their filaments are not united at the base. Tip of stigma is not enlarged. Fruit is a capsule with an operculum, a cap-like structure that pops off when seeds are ready for dispersal. Leaves are in a basal rosettes and are oval to elliptical in shape; leaf margins are often toothed, but may also be smooth. Flowering April-July.

Source: Encyclopedia of Life

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Anthophyta
Class

Dicotyledoneae

Order

Primulales

Family

Primulaceae

Genus

Dodecatheon

Natureserve Explorer
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Tundra Shootingstar - tundra shootingstar
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Primrose Family
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Anthophyta - Dicotyledoneae - Primulales - Primulaceae - Dodecatheon - K. L. Chambers.

A perennial herb up to 45 cm tall. Flowers have five lavender to magenta petals, attached to a white corolla tube with a thin, wavy, reddish to purplish line at the base. Stamens are maroon to dark purple and their filaments are not united at the base. Tip of stigma is not enlarged. Fruit is a capsule with an operculum, a cap-like structure that pops off when seeds are ready for dispersal. Leaves are in a basal rosettes and are oval to elliptical in shape; leaf margins are often toothed, but may also be smooth. Flowering April-July.

Source: Encyclopedia of Life

NatureServe Global Status Rank
G2
Global Status Last Reviewed
2008-05-02
Global Status Last Changed
1989-02-08
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Restricted to the Coast Ranges of northwestern Oregon and southwestern Washington; occurs at scattered sites from the southern Olympic mountains, WA (Mt. Colonel Bob) to Tillamook County, OR (including Saddle Mountain and Onion Peak, Clatsop Co., OR) (Chambers 2006). Chambers (2006) hypothesized that low-elevation populations along rivers in Tillamook Co. may have become established by seeds washed down from the mountain populations.
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