15 cm ruler for scale

Tufted, low plants with leafy stems. Plants are woody based, stems decumbent. Flowers are small pinkish-white, in dense umbels growing on the ends of relatively long peduncles. Flowers measured to 4 mm diameter, umbels to 18 mm diameter. Stems and leaves white-woolly. Leaves alternate, oblanceolate, typically 5 cm long and 6 mm wide.

Habitat is eroded banks and badlands.

Uncommon, listed as an S3 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.

Height is listed in Budd's Flora to 20 cm. We measured flowering stems to 15 cm tall.

Photos taken June 19th, and June 28th clay slopes, badlands, west block Grasslands National Park, about 400 km south west of our home in Regina, SK

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