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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Stems solitary or few, vine-like and climbing over other plants or sometimes erect and independent of support; herbage without hairs, somewhat dull grayish-green; rhizomes slender.
Identification notes: Perennial, rhizome; few slender stems, vine-like, often uses other plants for support; leaves with 3 to 5 pairs of broad, hairless leaflets, tendrils at leaf tips; elongated clusters of few to many white to pink flowers grow from the upper leaf nodes.
Height:
1/2 to 2 feet long
Habitat Description: Meadows, slopes, pine or spruce-aspen forests.
Plant Communities:
Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 5500 - 8500 feet
Color:
White, pink, purple, bluish
Shape:
Irregular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Apr - Sep
Description:
Few to many small stems of flowers from upper leaf nodes; hairless, white to pink petals, 1/4 to 3/4 inch, tinged with pale purple or bluish to purple veins.
Leaf Color:
Dull grayish-green
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Round or oval
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
No
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Simple or branched tendril at end of stem; 6 to 10 leaflets; wide egg-shaped, to 1-1/2 inches long and to 1/16 inch wide; smooth, hairless; pale above, whitish powdery below; pair of pointed, 1/3 inch long appendages (stipules) at base.
Fruit Type: Pod
Fruit Notes: 1/8 to 1/4 inch long; elliptic-oblanceolate (somewhat between rounded like an egg and having a rounded apex and tapering base).
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