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Le Se ovalifoliun Nutt. Low densely tufted plant branching at the base; 
flowering stems scape-like, 5-15-cm. tall, white woolJy, 1 mm. in diameter; 
leaves densely crowded, the blades 5-15 mm. long, oval, acutish, abruptly 
attenuate below to a subequal petiole, covered with a dense, white, feltlike 
tomentum on both surfaces; flowers in a terminal solitary glomerule, the involucre 
lobed nearly to the base, the lobes narrowly oblong, woolly; perianth 3.5-4 mm. 
long, glabrous, not narrowed to a stipelike base, the pedicels shorter. 
Rocky alpine ledges usually at 6000 ft. or more, Lake Pend Oreille; 
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aa Ke pyrolaefolium Hooke Low tufted plants with a stout sometimes 
“branching caudex guwewed with old leaf-bases, the root elongated; leaves in 
& basal tuft, the blades 2-5 cm. long, oval or even subrotund, rounded or 
blunt at the apex, the upper surface green, glabrate, the lower wommp abruptly 
attenuate eupebina=beee to Woolly petioles 2-4 cm. long, these dilated at the 
pase; flowering stems usually several, 8-12 ma. long, more or less wooliy, the 
Clusters subtended by two linear-spatulate bracts 8-15 mm. long; umbels 
1-3 on each stem, the involucres top-shaped, woolly, 6-8 mm. long, 5-toothed, 
the teeth triangular, 2-2.5 mm long, acute; perianth white or rose-color, 
5 mme lon, wooljy on the outer surface; anthers purple; fruits not seen. 
Hoodoo Lake, Shattuck and Fenn; Scurvy Mt., 6000 ft., Kirkwood 1946. 
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