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Primula jeffreyi
Tall Mountain Shootingstar
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Photographer: Gerald and Buff Corsi
Collection: CalAcademy
ID: 6666 6666 0713 0006 (2013-07-09)Copyright © 2013 California Academy of Sciences
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date of photo Aug 11, 2012
latitude 60.76718 longitude -146.29377 max error distance 24844 meters
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horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984 georeferencing source GeoLocatelocation
Prince William Sound, Chugach National Forest (Alaska, US)family
Primulaceae
plant community Arcticnotes Dodecatheon jeffreyi is a species of flowering plant in the primrose family known by the common names Sierra shooting star, Jeffrey's shooting star, and tall mountain shooting star. This wildflower is native to western North America from California to Alaska to Montana, where it grows in mountain meadows and streambanks. This is a thick-rooted perennial with long, slightly wrinkled leaves around the base. It erects slim, tall, hairy stems which are dark in color and are topped with inflorescences of 3 to 18 showy flowers. Each flower nods with its mouth pointed to the ground when new, and becomes more erect with age. It has four or five reflexed sepals in shades of pink, lavender, or white which lie back against the body of the flower. Each sepal base has a blotch of bright yellowCalAcademy slide # Dodecatheon jeffreyi 120811 _D333271 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
original filename: Dodecatheon jeffreyi 120811 _D333271.jpg
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Tall Mountain Shootingstar, Sierra Shootingstar (photographer)
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