Blooms: May - Early July
Habit: shrub,herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Conservation Status: Sensitive
Distribution: Alaska south to the northern Cascades and Selkirk Mountains of Washington, the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon, and the Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana
Habitat: High mountains, often above timberline, but down to lower elevations along streams
Habit: shrub,herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Conservation Status: Sensitive
Distribution: Alaska south to the northern Cascades and Selkirk Mountains of Washington, the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon, and the Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana
Habitat: High mountains, often above timberline, but down to lower elevations along streams
Species Description:
General: Prostrate shrub with freely rooting woody branches, often forming large patches, the leafless flowering stems erect, white-woolly, up to 20 cm. tall.
Leaves: Leaf blades oblong-elliptic to obovate, 1.5-3 cm. long and up to 2 cm. broad, coarsely once or twice serrate, the teeth rounded; blades dark green above, white-woolly below.
Flowers: Flowers solitary on the scapes; calyx covered with stalked glands, the 8-10 lobes ovate, 4-6 mm. long; petals 8-10, pale to deep yellow, ascending, elliptic to obovate, 8-12 mm. long; stamens numerous, the filaments slender, hairy; pistils numerous.
Fruits: Fruit an achene, tipped with an elongate, persistent plumose style which is often yellow.
General: Prostrate shrub with freely rooting woody branches, often forming large patches, the leafless flowering stems erect, white-woolly, up to 20 cm. tall.
Leaves: Leaf blades oblong-elliptic to obovate, 1.5-3 cm. long and up to 2 cm. broad, coarsely once or twice serrate, the teeth rounded; blades dark green above, white-woolly below.
Flowers: Flowers solitary on the scapes; calyx covered with stalked glands, the 8-10 lobes ovate, 4-6 mm. long; petals 8-10, pale to deep yellow, ascending, elliptic to obovate, 8-12 mm. long; stamens numerous, the filaments slender, hairy; pistils numerous.
Fruits: Fruit an achene, tipped with an elongate, persistent plumose style which is often yellow.
Subspecies & Varieties:
Ours is var. drummondii
Accepted Name:
Dryas drummondii Synonyms:
(none)
Treated in Flora of the PNW as:
Dryas drummondii
Additional Resources:
PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Dryas drummondii specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Dryas drummondii specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.
Washington Flora Checklist: Dryas drummondii treatment.
E-Flora BC: Dryas drummondii atlas page.
CalPhotos: Dryas drummondii images.
USDA Plants Database: Dryas drummondii.
Jim Riley
Richard Ramsden, 2005
Bud Kovalchik
Alan Yen, 2006
Alan Yen, 2006
Alan Yen, 2006
G. D. Carr, 2008
G. D. Carr, 2008
G. D. Carr, 2008
Clayton J. Antieau, 1984
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