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O89 
/. Dodecatheon L. Shooting Star. 
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Low perennial herbs with short rootstocks,sometimes bulbiferous and 
fleshy roots; leaves in a basal rgsette. Flowers several in umbels at the 
apex of an erect scape which is longer than the leaves. Calyx 4-5=parted, 
united toward the base, reflexed in flower, erect in fruit. Corolla lobes 
4 or 5, united below into a short tube, quickly and strongly reflexed in 
flower. Stamens usually 5, erect; the filaments free or united into a 
short tube, shorter than the anthers/sthe connective prominent, sometimes 
wrinkled, commonly colored. Capsule dehiscent by 5 vertical valves, also 
circumscissile at the tip in some species. Seeds mmerous. 
O Anthers sessile or nearly so, the filament less than 
4 1mm. long 
< Leaf-blades rounded at the base, oval, coarsely 
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© toothed 1. De dentatum 
~ Leaf-blades attenuate below the middle, subentire 2 D. integrifoliwm 
O Filaments united into a distinct tube about half the 
4 length of the enthers 3 De Cusickii 
l. De dentatum Hook. Rootstocks slender, the leaves few, the earliest 
spatulate or obovate, entire, the blades of all thin, the mature ones ovate 
or oval, 4-12 cm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rounded 
or truncate at the base, abruptly narrowed to winged petioles 5=8 om. long, 
the margin coarsely sinuate-dentate, both surfaces glabrous; scape 20-30 cm. 
tall, glabrous; flowers few on pedicels 2-6 om. long; sepals triangular-ovate, 
2-265 mme long, acuminate; corolla white, the lobes oblong-lanceolate, 8-13 mn. 
long; anthers 5=7 mm. long, tapering upwards, acute, the filaments .5-1 mm. 
long, distinct, connective purple, smooth; capsule 6-10 mm. long, opening by 
valves from the apex. 
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In deep moist woods; rare. 
——rWiessner's Peak, 
Sandberg 602; St. Joe R., 2500 ft., Epling and Putnam 
Ste Joe, Christ 1573, 
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