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VALERI AN ACE^E 

 Valerian Family 



Perennial strongly smelling herbs, with 

 opposite leaves and paniculate heads of 

 small pink or white, funnel-form, more or 

 less gibbous flowers, commonly with 3 

 exserted stamens. 



Erect, perfectly smooth through- 

 Valeriana 



septentri- out or tne inflorescence minutely 

 onalisRydb. hairy, 8- 1 6 inches high. Basal, 

 Northern leaves petioled, spathulate or 



oval, 1-5 inches long, entire; 

 stem leaves usually 3 pairs, the lower 

 petioled, the upper sessile, segments, 5-7 

 oval or linear-lanceolate, entire or merely 

 undulate on the margins. Flowers cymose- 

 paniculate, usually congested ; corolla white, 

 about t of an inch long; fruit smooth, J of 

 an inch or slightly longer. 



In moist shaded places and on slopes in 

 the lower valleys of the Rockies; flowering 

 in July. 



