Plant Description:

• Grows up to 50 cm high with many stems
• Round basal leaves fall off early in season
• Stem leaves are sword-shaped
• 1 or more drooping, bell-shaped flowers
• Found on dry slopes and open prairie
• Natives chewed on the roots to relieve heart palpitations, and made into a tea to cure flu, fever and lung or heart problems
• A very hardy plant
• In Scotland,in the past, this plant was considered to be bad luck
• Found at Stops 1, 2, and 9

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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