Family: Polemoniaceae,
Phlox
Genus: Ipomopsis
Description
General: perennial, the taproot topped by a branched or
simple crown. Stems several or solitary, herbaceous, erect,
simple, 5-30 cm tall. Flower cluster and herbage loosely
and often rather thinly cobwebby-woolly-hairy.
 Leaves: alternate, mostly 3-parted or pinnatifid with a
narrow axis and segments, or in some stunted individuals
sometimes all entire. Basal leaves tufted and persistent,
1-6 cm long, stem leaves often smaller but still generally
well developed.
 Flowers: numerous, stalkless in a terminal, dense,
rounded or more often slightly elongated cluster with bracts
at bases. Corolla persistent, white, the tube 5-9 mm long,
quite a bit longer than the calyx, the 5 spreading lobes
2.5-5 mm long. Filaments attached at the recesses of the
corolla, shorter than the 0.6-1.0 mm anthers. Style short,
not reaching much, if at all, beyond the middle of the
corolla tube.
Flowering time: June-August.
 Fruits: capsules with seeds 2.5-3 mm long, becoming
slimy on the surface when wet.
Distribution
Dry, open places, from the plains to high elevations in the
mountains, in w. and s.c. parts of MT. Also from c. ID to
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