Skip Navigation
Sign In
  • Home
  • Search
    • Search Collections
    • Map Search
  • Chicago Botanic Garden
    • Project Information
    • Checklists
    • Create a Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • Denver Botanic Gardens
    • Project Information
    • Checklists
    • Create a Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • Desert Botanical Garden
    • Project Information
    • Checklists
    • Create a Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • NY Botanical Garden
    • Project Information
    • Checklists
    • Create a Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
    • Project Information
    • Checklists
    • Create a Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • Sitemap

Balsamorhiza sericea

Balsamorhiza sericea W.A. Weber  
Family: Asteraceae
Silky Balsamroot
Balsamorhiza sericea image
  • FNA
  • Resources
William A. Weber in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Plants 10-30(-40) cm. Basal leaves: blades silvery, lanceolate or lance-ovate, 9-30 × 2-7 cm (1-pinnatifid, lobes oblong to oblanceolate, 5-35 × 3-17 mm), bases cuneate, ultimate margins usually entire (plane or weakly revolute, obscurely, if at all, ciliate), apices rounded to acute, faces densely sericeous. Heads borne singly. Involucres campanulate to hemispheric, 11-20+ mm diam. Outer phyllaries broadly ovate to triangular-ovate, 12-20 mm, slightly surpassing inner, apices acuminate to attenuate (margins not ciliate). Ray laminae 15-20 mm (adaxially puberulous on veins).

Flowering Apr-May. Serpentine outcrops, among surface rocks, in crevices, hillsides, dry streamsides among cobbles; 400-1800 m; Calif., Oreg.

Balsamorhiza sericea hybridizes with B. deltoidea.

Balsamorhiza sericea
Open Interactive Map
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Balsamorhiza sericea image
Click to Display
12 Total Media
Institute for Museum and Library Services KU BI Logo Logo for the Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].

EcoFlora is part of the SEINet Portal Network. Learn more here.

Powered by Symbiota.