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Petasites frigidus
One of the first wildflowers to bloom here in Washington state. General: Perennial from a creeping rhizome, 1-5 dm. tall, sub-dioecious, the flowers appearing before or with the leaves. Leaves: Leaves all basal, large, long-petioled, palmately veined, up to 4 dm. wide and long, glabrous above and loosely white-woolly below, lobed or coarsely toothed or both; the stem with several parallel-veined bracts, 2.5-6 cm. long, reduced upward. Flowers: Heads several to many in a somewhat congested inflorescence; involucre 5-9 mm. high, the bracts equal and in a single series; flowers in the female heads pistillate and fertile, whitish and rayless, the corolla filiform; flowers in the males heads sterile, whitish, with short rays.
Spotted growing on a moist shady hillside in a mixed forest.
Spotted on Mar 9, 2018
Submitted on Mar 13, 2018
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Two, very pretty, flower photos....