Hooker's Balsamroot, Hairy Balsamroot
Balsamorhiza hookeri
Synonyms: Balsamorhiza hirsuta, Balsamorhiza hirsuta var. lagocephala, Balsamorhiza hookeri var. hirsuta, Balsamorhiza hookeri var. hookeri, Balsamorhiza hookeri var. lagocephala, Balsamorhiza hookeri var. lanata
This is the former Balsamorhiza hookeri var. hookeri
The photo above shows Hooker's balsamroot at seen in open coniferous woods east of the Mt. Adams Highway...........April 27, 2008.
Hooker's balsamroot as seen at the southeast corner of Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge............ July 2, 2012.
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The photo at left shows Hooker's balsamroot as seen in open coniferous woods east of the Mt. Adams Highway..........May 5, 2007. The photo at right shows a late-blooming Hooker's balsamroot still in bloom in wetlands south of the Klickitat River canyon
rim in the Klickitat Canyon Community Forest.........June 4, 2022. Spring 2022 was a very wet year and flowers at this elevation were at least several weeks late in bloom.
The photo above shows Hooker's balsamroot as
seen in open woods along the Yakima-Klickitat County Line to the north of Glenwood,
WA.........April 13, 2007.
The photo above shows a close-up of the flower
head of Hooker's balsamroot as seen in open woods along the Yakima-Klickitat
County Line to the north of Glenwood, WA.........May 6, 2006. Note
that each ray flower has two sharply incised notches at its tip.
A view of the involucral bracts of Hooker's balsamroot as seen east of the Mt. Adams Highway........April 13, 2007.
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Hooker's balsamroot as seen in fields along the wildlife area access road to the west of Grayback Mountain Road, Klickitat Wildlife Area.........April 26, 2016.
Hooker's balsamroot as seen at the boundary between coniferous forest and wetland meadow near Lakeside Road in Conboy Lake NWR..........April 30, 2009.
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Hooker's balsamroot (former var. hookeri) as in open woods along the Yakima-Klickitat County Line to the north of Glenwood,
WA.........May 1, 2015.
The photo above shows Hooker's balsamroot as seen in open woods along the Yakima-Klickitat County Line to the north of Glenwood, WA.........May 6, 2006.
Paul Slichter