Dodecatheon meadia L. (shooting star), flower buds
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digital color photograph
Born digital
Photographic image
2005 – 2012
Dodecatheon meadia L. (shooting star), wildflower, smooth perennial with leafy basal rosette, erect scapes 6-20" tall and a terminal umbel of handsome nodding flowers on erect or ascending stalks, leaves are mostly oblong to oblanceolate 8" long and usually tinged with red at the base, corollas are 5-lobed narrow white to lilac and bent sharply back, stamens (5) are united and converge appearing cone-like
