Cryptantha celosioides - photos and description

Saskatchewan's Wildflowers

Small, erect, hairy plant with greyish-green leaves, single to several stems. White flowers to 10 mm diameter with a yellow eye, in a dense spike. Lower leaves narrowly spatulate 2.5 cm long, 4 mm wide. Upper leaves linear, 2 cm long and 3 mm wide.

Hieght is listed in Budd's Flora to 30 cm, we measured plants to 10 cm tall.

Common to dry hills and grassland.

Photos taken May 21st, on grassy hilltops, Frenchman River Valley, west block of the Grasslands National Park, 400 km southwest of our Regina, SK, and grassy slope east block of the Grasslands National Park, 300 km southwest of our home in Regina, SK.

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