G,. viscosissimm Fisch, & Meyer. ————_>| Several erect] Stems |60-100 cm, 
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all, much branched in the inflorescence, pilose and densely glandular 
throughout, viscid; basal leaves numerous, the blades 10-15 cm, in diameter, 
rotund or somewhat reniform in outline, 5-lobed nearly to the base, the lobes 
wedge-shaped, coarsely toothed or lobed towards the apex, softly hirsute on 
both surfaces, usually glandular beneath, borne on viscid-hirsute petioles, 
the floral leaves 5-5 lobed and nearly sessile; flowers in a spreading 
glandular panicleS0-40 cm, long, the bracts subfoliar but greatly reduced, 
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the pedicels increasing in fruit; calyx-lobes 10-15 mm, long, 3-veined. | 
hispid-glandular; petals rose-purple, obovate, 15-18 mm, long, pilose 
j in the lower half; style colum glandular, 2.5 om, long in fruit, the 
beak and spreading persistent styles 10-12 m, longer, the achenes 4,5 
mm, long, plump, glandular; seeds 3.5 mm, long, finely reticulate, 
In the warmer valleys usually below 3000 ft., forming clumps along 
roadways, on dry gravelly slopes in the open; occasional puzzling forms 
occur which are hardly or not at all glandular, Near Moscow; Carlin Bay; 
Santa; Lake Coeur d'Alene; Harvard; Troy; Fernan Lake, 
