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Abundant alpine altitudes anthers apex basal lvs base beak botanist bracts branches broadly calyx capsule carpellate caudices clusters cm long Colorado Common corolla culm cymes dense dioecious dm tall elliptic elongate erect FAMILY fl stems flat Fls white Fls yellow forests Fronds genus glabrous glandular glaucous glumes green hairs heads Hooker hypanthium Ifls infl Infrequent invol lanceolate lemma less Lfls lobes Löve lower Lvs linear margins meadows mm long montane montane and subalpine narrow narrowly Nuttall oblanceolate oblong ovary ovate panicle pedicels perennial Perig petals petioles phyls pink pinnately pinnatifid piñon-juniper plants Pods pubescent purple Pursh racemes rarely rhizomatous rhizomes roadsides Rocky Rydberg sagebrush seeds sepals sessile sheaths short shrubs slender slopes species spikes spklts spreading stamens stem lvs streamsides style subalpine tepals toothed Torrey & Gray tundra umbels upper valleys Weber weed wide