I. Sidalcea Graye 
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Ours perennial herbs from a woody rootstock with alternate palmately 
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lobed leaves, the basal unlike the steomteares, bearing branched hairs, 
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lowers showy in terminal racemes or panicles, Sepals 5, united at the 
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base, Petals rose-colored, emarginate. Stamens in two more or less distinct | 
series, the filements of the outer series united into usually five sets, 
the immer ten setse Styles stigmatic along the inner surface, Carpels 
5-9, separating from the axis at maturity, l-seeded, indehiscent,. 
le Se oregana (Nutt.) Gray. Stems several, forming small clumps with 
numerous basal leaves, 50-60 cm, tall, prostrate at the base, ascending, 
the internodes 5-10 cm. long, the basal leaf-blades nearly rotund or 
kidney-shaved in outline, 5-10 cm, in diameter, merely toothed or cleft 
about to the middle, usually into 7 wedge-shaped lobes, these again 
coarsely toothed at the apex, on vetioles 10-20 cm, long, the cauline 
leaves divided nearly or quite to the base, the divisions 35-5 in the 
uppermost, slender, usually entire; both surfaces of all leaves more or 
less densely pubescent, harsh to the touch; raceme dense,o-30 cm, long, 
the flowers except the lowermost mostly 5-6 mm, distant, the bracts 
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linear, e5-l cm. long, often forked; pedicels 2-3 mn, long; calyx densely 
and minutely pubescent, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 mm, long, half 
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again as long as the tube; corolla rose-purple, 1 em. longs carpel clusters 
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5-6 mm, wide, 3 mm, tall, the carpels smoothes 
Along roadsides and in meadows at lower elevations, This plant 
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shows ggmedimorphisn of the flovers so that variability in, nature of 
the inflorescence and flower size will be noted within a single community. 
