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3. Balsamorhiza careyana A. Gray. Carey’s Balsamroot. Fig. 5144. 
Balsamorhiza careyana A. ea Mem. Amer. Acad. II. 4: 81. 1849. 
Perennials 2-6 dm. high from a deep-seated woody taproot ae re pean caudex, clothed 
with Ficaas wa bases, the a leaved stems bearing 3 or more closely racemose h ds. B sal 
leaves 1.5—5 dm. long, o 1.5 dm. wide, the petioles nearly wie, ing to pained Rot the blades, 
these cordate a ae . ge ad s sinus, mostly triangular-hastate, entire or nearly so, subcoria- 
ceous an = Mie Ss ie glandular, and hispi dulous on bot mg ae ga hs ves few, mee poopie: 
becoming bracteate and sessile above; involucres 0.8-2.5 c _ br oad; r phyllarie 182 
long, “ear Oa ee exceeding the inner, more or ‘Pe hirsute to elabrate Be 
~3 cm. lo: z, , persisting and becoming somewhat papery ; achene s 6-7 m , hairy. 
Plai A eile ds, Arid Transition Zone; central Washington in Grant and L on unties south to 
ieuielenwa Umatilla and pore ow Counties, Orego on. Type locality: given as (dennis but collected by 
Spalding probably west of the Clearwater River. March-July. 
Balsamorhiza careyana var. eat Cronquist, Vasc. Pl. Pacif. Northw. 5: 101. 1955. Differing from 
fil baci yovie shyla in hav the leaves often crenate, the Paine ai Lionas of ee ep acenense enlarged, 
the outer ore ease, pa the — glabrous. — of the Cascad ntains from the British 
Sarco ge Aa border ponte to Deschutes and Wheeler Counties, Oregon. Type locality: Bee nse ga Gam Wheeler 
ounty, eg 
4. Balsamorhiza hodkeri (Hook.) Nutt. Hooker’s Balsamroot. Fig. 5145. 
pape iopsis ? balsamorhiza Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 310. 1833. 
a anaehiee Rente ert ies Att. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 349. 1840. 
Heller, Cat. N. Amer. PL 7. 1898 
Perennials from thick wo oody taproot with black see bark and int unbranched caudex, 
stems 1-3 dm. high, scapose or with a pair of nearly basal stem-leaves, sericeo agit some longer 
hairs near the liteey heads. Basal leaves 10-20 cm. ola lanceolate in omliae ¢ he blade much 
longer than the petioles, pinnately parted to the midrib, the ices cleft into Brevi sor lobes, 
thinly sericeous, mgt es nsely s ase the smaller leaves, the petioles often pilose as well; involucres 
a .5-2.5 cm e; phyllaries 1-1.5 cm. lon g, 2- 4 mm. wide, lanceolate, attenuate at apex, 
the outer : phvtialies 4 sae excee ae the disk, sandiete. lanate on the margins and densely so toward 
the rag heen thin x. oe on the surface and appearing prea = ig rays 1.5-2.5 cm. long, about 
10-16; s 4-5 mm. long, glabro 
ais wed Arid ees i pees ebateen Klickitat County, Washington, to Clark County. Type local- 
ity: Fort Vancouver, Clark County. ae I-June 
Intergrading with B. hookeri var. apecepeele in cme — ven oe oe 
Uatsauarhie. hookeri var. lanata Sharp, Ann Gar 935. Habit as in B. hookeri 
var. hookeri, the plants low, densely aneie throtighout a Peg ioe yay as cs hipinnately divided; i sane 
as in B. hookeri var. hookeri but with a longer, more dense pubescence. Know hills near Yreka, 
Siskiyou —— California, the ty pe locality: 
Bal orhiza hookeri var. Tagocéphala (Sharp) me Vasc. Pl. Pacif. Northw. 5: 103. F 
(Hdeaworkiaa becate var. " legocephala Sharp, Ann, Mo. . Gard. 22: 139, 1935.) Habit as in B. hookeri var. 
hookeri; leaves pinnately divided, the lobes cleft into a — pier broad lobes or teeth, green, hirsute or create: 
lous with appressed hairs pn often paneer: phyllaries seriate, the outer rarely surpassing the inner, lanceolate 
= aca lanceolate, more or less ee mentose es pecially at the base of the outer phyllaries. Rocky soil and 
ebrush, east of the Cascade Moi Washington. Type locality: Ellensburg, ee kh A highly 
bate taxon wlgintenbia pid with B. hookeri var. hookeri at its southern limit and w other taxa in Balsa 
morhiza where the ranges overlap. 
Balsamorhiza ‘hokest: var. neglécta Mo. Bet by cam aye Vasc. Pl. Pacif. Northw. 5: 113. 1955. (Balsa- 
morhiza eee var. so de esol Ann ard. omg 139. 1935.) Habit as in B. hookeri var. hookert, 
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lowly to deeply cleft “with plant eae iy ane erasien green, with an appressed-hirsute pubescence; phyl- 
laries more or less se the outer seldom surpassing the inner series, typieny lanceolate to linear- lence; 
more or less iscastaneniace, densely so on the margins. Rocky soil, central Utah westward through northern 
and central Nevada to northeastern California. Ty ae ality: Truckee Pass, Wiehe County, Nevada, any 
aberrant forms probably of hybrid origin are foun ashoe County _. in adjacent California which may 
have ovate-lanceolate or ovate-attenuate, gg se glandular Slevtecrkes from which the villous-tomentose pubescence 
= bc lacking. Balsamorhiza hookeri var, lanata, B. macrolepis, and B. ieectolents var. platylepis occur in this 
os Fairey eee macrolépis Sharp. California Balsamroot. Fig. 5146. 
Bal. Sharp, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 22: 132. 1935. 
Perennials ies a coarse woody root and short caudex, the several aos 2-6 dm. high, scapose 
or with a pair of reduced pinnate foontd ae the base, appressed-pu t below, appressed or 
spreading above. Basal leaves 2-4.5 dm 10 cm. wide, blade vata bees than the petioles, 
lanceolate in outline, pinnate, the div ate “Tanceoate, ‘usually deeply lobed, the lobes rounded or 
acute at apex, very thinly sericeous or appressed-t tomento: rs 
2-3 cm. — abere ssed short-sericeous and aa ely glandular ; outer phyllaries 2-3.5 cm. 
much surpassing the j inner and the disk, oblong or prt Ba lanceolate, usually incised or toothed at 
on Bs. the inner lanceolate; rays about 10-15 and 2.5-3.5 c m. long; achenes 5-7 mm. long, 
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Fields and r hill slopes, Upper Sonoran Zone; Butte County, California, south to Mariposa County and 
me the BD Coast anges from Sonoma County south ‘to Santa Clara County. Type locality: Clear Creek, Butte 
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orhiza macrolepis var. platylepis (Sharp) Ferris. Contr. Dudley Herb. 1958. (Balsamorhiza 
plage Sh “Sharp, aan Mo. = . Ga + shes _— 1935.) Plants 1-3.5 pe high; aa enceihe usually more dense 
than B. macrol. va lepis: pi innate divisions of the leaves shallowly to not at all lobed, 
ed rb iecediy acute cade cheterics Shorter’ than to equaling ac disk, me outer and the second series 
ar or ovate, irate 3 r abruptly attenuate and often spreading, sericeous o ee sg and sometimes 
velutinous particularly in ‘nk o the Siskiyou Mountains area, Siskiyou aa oe phine County, 
Oregon, to Siskiyou ‘ounty, Califacnia. where it grows on serpentine; also Modoc Comunity Saiccnis. south to 
Nevada Co Cony and adjacent Washoe County, Nevada. Type locality: Marmol Station, Washoe County. Silvery 
