-gracilis Dougl. ————->A perennial herb with sometimes sever 
ns epee ios a stout, branching caudex, covered with old le 
0-60 om. tall, branching only in the inflorescence, siliy-hirsute ith fing 7 
hairs, the hairs pointing upwards and more or less pressed to the atem; leave ee 
mostly ina tuft at the base, palmately 9-9-foliolate, the petioles slender, 
5-15 om. long or more, clothed like the stems, stipules joined about half = 
their length, the free tips green and herbaceous, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
clothed like the leaves, blades rotund in outline, 5©12 om. or more in diameter 
the leaflets oblanceolate in outline or narrowly oval, 3-8 om. or. more long, 
cut on each side nearly to the midrib, less commonly only halfway into 5-6 
similar linear spreading lobes 1-3 mm. wide, acute, upper face green 
thinly covered with soft silky hairs, the lower surface 
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3 inflorescence openfand graceful a@ et 
maturity, the bracts herbaceous, comnonly 3-lobed, the pedicels hirsute, not, ' 
glandular; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 5-7 mm. long in flower, 7-8 mm. long in 
fruit, the appendages less than half as large, both Silky; corolla saucen> 
shaped, the petals bright vellow, darker at the base, overlapping, conspicuous, 
obovate-orbicular, notched, 7-12 mm. in diameter; stamens 3 mme long 7, 20 in 
3d unequal seriesf,the anthers 1 mm. long; receptacle 2 mm. long at maturity, 
woolly; achenes 1.2 mm. long, smooth/, the veins hardly apparent. 
le | Throughout our range, along roadways and in sunny open places, even in 
subalpine situations$ halk variable 
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P._tuttallii Lehm. —- yA perennial herb 30-60 cm. tall, or more, the 
rootstock woody, 5-8 mm. in diameter, often branching, clothed with old leaf 
bases, stems ascending, nearlv clabrous or Sparsely clothed with stiffish 
Spreading hairs, not at all silky or woolly, branching only in the inflores- 
cence; basal leaves ina tuft, the petioles twice the length of the blades or 
more, as long as 30 cm. in robust Specimens, clothed like the stems, blades 
5-10 cme in diameter, subrotund in outline, palmately o-7=foliolate, the 
leaflets oblanceolate, the margins coarsely toothed, but rarely halfway to 
the midrib, the teeth salient, acute, the inner margin of the tooth usually 
concave or sometimes straight, the outer margin convex, both surfaces freen, 
sparingly clothed with short stiffish hairs 
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flowers numerous in an open 
graceful cyme, the bracts mostly entire, the upper minute, the branches and 
pedicels slender, sparsely woolly and sometimes glandular; calyx lobes ovate 
to lanceolate, acute, or acuminate, 3mm. long in flower, 5 mme long in fruit, 
the appendages linear, 3 mn. long, Scarcely lwn. wide, both thinly hirsute; 
petals bright yellow, 6-7 mm. long, subrotund, notched; stamens 2 mm. long; 
receptacle 2 mm. long at maturity, thinly hirsute; achenes 1 mme long, smooth. 
‘a In openings in the woods and meadows and along roadways at lower elevations; | 
not seen in the north. POrogr=nde Cres Pierce; Cleorkia; 
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