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Mountain Heliotrope

Valeriana sitchensis

Habitat:

Mountain heliotrope is a plant of open to wooded places, especially cool, wet meadows at middle and upper altitudes in the mountains. — science.halleyhosting.com

2 Species ID Suggestions

Sitka Valerian
Valeriana sitchensis Valeriana sitchensis
Onion or garlic
Allium spp


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2 Comments

BonnieLewis
BonnieLewis 9 years ago

I believe you are correct, Stirred Mocha. Thank you so much.

StirredMocha
StirredMocha 9 years ago

Alliums are monocots so their individual flowers would show a 6-petaled (3 petals, 3 sepals) rather than a 5-petaled pattern.

BonnieLewis
Spotted by
BonnieLewis

USA

Spotted on Aug 10, 2014
Submitted on Aug 19, 2014

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