Balsamorhiza hookeri var. lagocephala
Rabbithead Balsamroot

Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)

Photo taken at the Colockum Wildlife Preserve, dry shrub-steppe, lithosol soil, flowering late April-May

Flowers:

one terminal flower per peduncle; radiate; disk and ray flowers yellow

Leaves:

pinnatified basal leaves; cauline leaves reduced, generally linear bracts or wanting

Plant:

perennial; scapiform; smaller than the more common Balsamorhiza sagittata. Traditionally the roots were pit cooked and eaten by the Okanagan-Coville.

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Distribution of genus:

more or less 12 species: Western North America