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#23. Pacific Waterleaf

Hydrophyllum tenuipes

Family Name:

Waterleaf Family

Habitat:

Moist shady woods.

Characteristics:

1. Leaves deeply parted with 5 to 7 leaflets. Leaves have a stiff hairy texture to them. Venation is both pinnate and palmate.

2. Flowers bell-shaped, yellow to light purple with stamens longer than petals. Bloom is from May to July.

3. Flowers at tip of stem in a curved, loose fiddlehead arrangement (cyme).

4. Plants wilt quickly when picked.

Uses or Importances:

1. Leaves eaten by grazing animals.

2. Local Indians ate the roots.

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