Apocynum androsaemifolium var. androsaemifolium
Spreading Dogbane

Family: Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)

Photo taken near Silver Falls, open dry gravelly area, ponderosa pine forest

Flowers:

cyme terminal; corolla 4 to 10 mm, bell-shaped, pinkish; lobes spreading to reflexed

Fruit:

elongate follicle, 7 to 11 cm, pendent to erect; seeds with a tuft of white hair

Leaves:

mostly spreading to drooping

Plant:

stem diffusely branched. The bark was used to make cordage and twine by the Okanagan-Colville, Thompson, Great Basin Indian, and Montana Indian.

Habitat:

open slopes, and rocky places

Distribution of species:

Canada and western North America to eastern North America

Distribution of genus:

more or less 7 species: North America