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corolla infundibuliform, 3-5 mm. long, white, the lobes half as long as the tube; stamens and ee 
ex shite bag uits lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 5-3.0 mm. long, glabrous or pilosulos se, tawny o 
rubig 14.28. 
REAM into gardens in the United States and Canada, and established as a garden escape in parts of 
Washinetsn May-July. 
2. Valeriana RE Bong. Mountain Heliotrope. Fig. 5054. 
Valeriana sitchensis Bong. Mém d. St. Pétersb. VI. 2: 145. 1832. 
Valeriana hookeri Shuttlw. Flora py 450. 1837. 
Valeriana suksdorfii Gandoger, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 65: 36. 1918. 
Valeriana frigidorum Gandoger, op. cit. 37. 
Valeriana anomala Eastw. Leaflets West. Bot. 3: 22. 1941. 
Stems robust from a rather s tout rhizome, 3.5-12.0 dm. tall, pert in Sgr a often 
wanting, “petioliite: undivided or pinnate to ger orm ovate- elliptic to obovate, 10-40 cm. long, 
dentate to repand or entire, the deteiend lobe 5-10 cm. long, 1.5-6.5 cm. i 8 gla brous ; scans 
leaves sebdenibeatiiy 2-5 pairs, pinnate to pinnatifidy 10-20 ¢ eg Lh the pied lobes 1-4 p airs, 
crenate to irregularly repand-dentate or es a entire, et inal lo ovate, iseubas 
rhombic, to psbA ve ins 5 cm. wide, see c Sihre se; in orescence thyrsiform with per- 
fect or gynodioecious flowers; or intondibuliformn, 4.5-7.0 long, w white to pinkish, the 
- usually oe than half - long as the gibbous tube; stamens pail rie exserted ; fruits ovate 
o oblong-ovate, 3-6 mm. long, i beige ft e, ian or purpu pcabcont Becucntiy purple- maculate. 
Subalpi nied a woodlan Canadian and Hudsonian Zones; Kenai anne Mie southward on the 
Alaska coastal mountains to east- pion and southern British Columbia castward to south-central Idaho and west- 
ern Montana; Washington and Oregon to <A ag iyou ee California. sree loc ality: “Habitat in mon- 
tanis, I’Isle Sitka” [now Baranof Island], A June-Sept. Northern Valeri 
Valeriana capitata subsp. pubicarpa eg F. G. Mey. Ann. Mo. Bot. G Gard. 38: 406. 1951. (Valeriana 
scoulert Rvdh. pee pe La Re Gar “rt 1: 377. 1900; V. adamsiana Eastw. Leaflets West. Bot. 2: 196. rca 
ollettiana Ea 197: V. humboldtiana Eastw, op. cit. 198.) Differing from V’. sitchensis sub 
sicheieee fi oo he follwing characteristics: plants slender, to 7 dm. tall; leaves mostly ages “essentially entire, gla 
brous, the terminal lobe 0.5-4.0 ¢ wide; fruits mostly oblon ng-linear, 5-6 mm. en — tawny to 
rubi iginous, rarely Space: pins elevations on — _— forest streams we ss Coe de SMaunaios 
thoes southwestern Alpi Columbia to on a ag , California. Type locality: On moist po and islands 
of the Columbia River r Oak Point.” h—-Jul 
3. Valeriana capitata subsp. californica (Heller) F.G. Mey. California Valerian. 
Fig. pie 
Valeriana capitata Pall. ex Link, Jahrb. d. apie = 1820, in part. 
Valeriana californica Heller, Muhlenbergia 1: 60. 
Valeriana puberula Piper, Smiths. Misc. Coll. 50 Pi ern 
Valeriana seminuda er, Proc. Biol. 95 
Valeriana ish var bra Jepson, Man. FI. Pl. Calif alg 1925 
Valeriana whiltonae Eastw. Leaflets West. Bot. 3: 24. 
abintice caadeies subsp. californica F. G. Mey. Ann. Mo. ae Gard. 38: 404. 1941. 
Stems with mostly basal eae from stout rhizomes, 2-6 dm. tall, ores escent above, aetna 
to piloenine toward the base. Basal leaves mostly undivi ded oe pinnate to pinnat coop oblanc 
late- to obovate-spatulate, ri .5- ide retuse at the “ot x, 
a d or essentially entire, puberulent, ciliate, or glabrous, the lateral lobes of fhe divided 
leaves 1-4 pairs; cauline leaves petiolate, pinnate to pinnatifid, 2.5- . long, rarely simple, 
ly netiotes 24 pega eee ae thyrsiform with perfect flowers; corolla pect nate 
white inkish, t bes half as long as the gibbous tube; stamens and style 
te e lo 1 
longer Pe the ela. limb a jae iitotic to ovate-oblong, 4.0-6.5 mm. long, 2.0- 28 mm ge ay 
glabrous or pilosulose 
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5053. Valeriana officinalis 5054. Valeriana sitchensis 
