This prairie wildflower is Saskatchewan's floral emblem. Orange to red flowers, rarely yellow, in June and July. Flowers consist of 3 petals, and 3 similar looking sepals, the sepals slightly narrower than the petals, the petals and sepals alternate around the flower. Flowers 1 to 5 per plant, flowers are large, to 9 cm in diameter. Leaves linear, in whorls of 4 to 6 near the top, alternate below, typical leaf 4.5 cm long and 5 mm wide. Plant glabrous.
Height listed in Budd's Flora from 20 to 60 cm. Tallest plant in the above patch was 45 cm.
Found in moist meadows, ditches, and wood groves in Saskatchewan.
We took the above photos June 20th, the slopes of the Souris River Valley, 200 km southeast of our home in Regina, SK.
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