Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Western Wetland Flora
Field Office Guide to Plant Species Dodecatheon pauciflorum
Greene - Family: Primrose (Primulaceae) - Flowering: May-July -
Field Marks: This species has leaves up to 8 inches long, 5-15
flowers per stem, and the tube of the sepals up to 1/6 inch
long. - Habitat: Wet meadows. - Habit: Perennial herb with a
short crown and fleshy roots. - Stems: Underground as a short
crown. - Leaves: All basal, oblanceolate to elliptic, up to 8
inches long, rounded or pointed at the tip, tapering to a short
stalk, without teeth, or sometimes with a wavy edge, smooth. -
Flowers: 5-15 per stem, nodding, the cluster subtended by very
small bracts. - Sepals: 5, green, united below, the tube up to
1/6 inch long, the lobes longer than the tube. - Petals: 5,
united at the base, turned backward, purple, up to 3/4 inch
long. - Stamens: 5. - Pistils: Ovary superior. - Fruits: Capsule
oblong-ovoid, smooth, up to 3/4 inch long. - Notes: This species
is often combined with D.