Bitterroot
One of the toughest plants in all of North America, the bitterroot is also one of the prettiest. The bitterroot grows natively in all the western continental states (excluding Arizona), including Alberta and British Columbia in Canada, where it remains dormant for most of the year buried under snow, ice, and completely dried up in hot desert sand. In late spring to early summer, this ground-hugging perennial of the sagebrush deserts and plains puts out one of the most incredible white to bright pink flowers, that shows in very sharp contrast to the surrounding habitat. This one was found growing at the top of some of the hills near Whiskey Dick Mountain near the Columbia River in Eastern Washington.
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Angiosperms, Caryophyllales, Core eudicots, Eudicots, Kittitas County, Ktanxa, L. rediviva, Lewisia, Lewisia rediviva, Montiaceae, Oregon bitter-root, PNW, Pacific Northwest, Plantae, Portulacaceae, Vantage, Washington, Whiskey Dick Mountain, beautiful, beauty, bitter root, black medicine, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, color, dicot, flora, flower, flowers, forb, fresh, green, hand-peeled, herb, mo'ôtáa-heséeo'ôtse, nakamtcu, naqam¢u, native, natural, nature, perennial, pink, plant, plants, purslane, racine amère, sagebrush desert, spetlem, spetlum, spring, sp̓eƛ̓m̓, white, wild, wildflower, wildflowers
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- Montiaceae (Bitterroot and Miner's Lettuce Family), Pink Wildflowers
