Bitter Root

Lewisia rediviva Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 368. 1814
Lewisia alba Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 1 15. 1861.
Perennial, with a fleshy root and short, simple caudex, densely covered with numerous leaves fleshy, linear, subterete. 2 -S cm. long, about 2 mm. thick; scapes numerous, 1-3 cm. long, bearing at the end 4 1 si arious lance subulate bracts about 5 mm. long; pedicel solitary, 1-1.5 cm. long, distinctly jointed to tin scape; sepals 6-9, oval, rose-colored or white, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; petals 12-18, rose-colored to white, 2-2.5 cm. long, elliptic or oblong; stamens 30-50; filaments united at the basi . styles ; B, exserted; capsule ovoid, 5-6 mm. long, 6-9seeded; seeds black or dark-brown, smooth, shining, round-reniform, 2.5 mm. long.
Type local: : lark's River [Clarl ' . Pork of •Columbia].
Distribution: Hritisli Columbia and Montana, and louthward to Colorado and northern California.