Heterocodon, Rareflower Heterocodon, Western Pearlflower
Heterocodon rariflorum
Synonym: Specularia rariflorum
![Corolla of Heterocodon, Rareflower Heterocodon, Western Pearlflower: Heterocodon rariflorum (Synonym: Specularia rariflorum)](../../../../cascade/mtadams/5/harebell/rariflorum/heterocodonrareflorum2a.jpg)
A close-up sideview of heterocodon as seen
in a moist swale along Road K1000 to the east of the Mt. Adams Highway.........July
9, 2006.
-- ![Corolla of Heterocodon, Western Pearlflower: Heterocodon rariflorum (Synonym: Specularia rariflorum)](../../../../cascade/mtadams/5/harebell/rariflorum/heterocodon1c.jpg)
Close-up views of the
flower of heterocodon as seen along Kreps Lane at Conboy NWR.........July
2, 2006. Note the thick, 3-lobed stigma that is shorter than the corolla tube.
![Heterocodon, Rareflower Heterocodon, Western Pearlflower: Heterocodon rariflorum (Synonym: Specularia rariflorum)](rariflorum4a.jpg)
A close-up sideview of
the long, bell-shaped corolla and spreading sepals of heterocodon as seen along the Old Headquarters Road in the Klickitat State Wildlife Area.........June 28, 2009.
![Leaf of Heterocodon, Rareflower Heterocodon, Western Pearlflower: Heterocodon rariflorum (Synonym: Specularia rariflorum)](../../../../cascade/mtadams/5/harebell/rariflorum/heterocodon1a.jpg)
The photo above shows a stem leaf of heterocodon
as seen at Conboy NWR.........July 2, 2006.
![Heterocodon, Rareflower Heterocodon, Western Pearlflower: Heterocodon rariflorum (Synonym: Specularia rariflorum)](../../../../cascade/mtadams/5/harebell/rariflorum/heterocodon1b.jpg)
The photo above shows the long, spindly form
of heterocodon.
Paul Slichter