Lewisia tweedyi
Tweedy's Lewisia

Family: Portulacaceae (Purslane family)

Photo taken near upper Eagle Creek, Wenatchee Mountains, dry rocky hillside, openly wooded

Flowers:

flower stem 10 to 20 cm, several flowered; 5 to 18 petals per flower, 25 to 40 mm long, peach to salmon colored; 12 to 25 stamens; 2 sepals

Leaves:

fleshy and glabrous; blades ovate or oblong-lanceolate to obovate, 10 to 20 cm long by greater than 10 mm wide

Plant:

perennial

Habitat:

rock crevices, talus slopes, and rocky banks, chiefly in ponderosa pine habitats

Distribution of species:

endemic to the Wenatchee Mountains, Chelan and Kittitas Counties, also found in the Methow Valley and Manning Park B.C.

Distribution of genus:

more or less 20 species: Western North America