15 cm ruler for scale
Low, rhizomatous plants, infloresences is a dense panicle. Stems usually reddish. Flowers measured at 6 mm diameter, panicle highlighted in photo above was 9 cm long. Leaves linear-lanceoate, a lower stem leaf highlighted above was 7 cm long and 1 cm wide. Leaves reduced upwards. Lower leaves finely dentate. Plants glabrous except for leaves which are finely ciliate.
Height listed in Budd's Flora to 50 cm, we measured plants to 41 cm tall.
Habitat is dry prairie and hillsides.
We've grown this plant from seed and tried it in our garden, but gave up on it - way too invasive.
We took the above photos July 15th, sandy prairie, Douglas Provincial Park, 200 km north west of our home in Regina, SK.
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