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 Leaves University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Herbarium Vascular Plant Collection, Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial) |  Plants Ross McCauley @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial) | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Perennial; stemless; rhizomes and stolons absent; bulb solitary and prominently veined, 3 to 7 bulb scales (fleshy, succulent layering); compound leaves of 3 heart-shaped leaflets; umbrella-shaped flower clusters.
Identification notes: Plants not stemmed; no rhizomes; form bulbs; leaves basal, leaflets 3 to 5, 4 common, rounded triangular shape, green upper surface, green to purplish lower surface; flowers in groups of 1 to 7, petals white to red to pinkish purple.
Height:
Up to 6 inches
Habitat Description: Streambeds, stream banks, meadows, pinyon-juniper, pine-oak-juniper, or pine-aspen woodlands.
Plant Communities:
Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian
Elevation: 6900 - 9000 feet
Color:
White, red, pinkish-purple
Shape:
Regular in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Jul - Sep
Description:
Umbrella-shaped clusters, 1 to 7 flowers per cluster, on stalks 2 to 5 inches long; distylous (styles of differing lengths); sepal tips with 2 orange, linear bumps; petals white to red to pinkish-purple, 1/4 inch long, smooth.
Leaf Color:
Green, purplish
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Palmate
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Basal
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
No
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Compound leaves basal; leaflets heart-shaped, smooth, green above, green to purplish below; leaflet tips notched and rounded; leaf stem 1 to 4 inches; oxalate deposits (a salt or ester of oxalic acid) absent or as a few glands in lobed tips.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Fruit a 5-celled capsule, elliptic, 1/8 to 1/4 inch long, smooth.
Seed Notes: Seeds 1/16 inch long.
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