Plant Description:

• Upright, hairy, dry prairie flower growing up to 30 cm tall
• Many small, sword-shaped, stalkless leaves
• Flowers in spikes at end of stems; flowers initially white but turn scarlet within a few hours.
• Flowers at bottom open up first and progress up the flower spike
• Found at Stops 1 and 2

 

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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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