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Collomia larsenii
Talus collomia is a small wildflower in the phlox family, native to high mountain talus slopes in the Cascades and Olympics. It is hard to grow in gardens because it needs rocky, very well-drained ground and cool, open conditions.
Collomia larsenii is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name talus collomia. It is native to the Olympic Mountains of Washington and the Cascade Range from Washington to northern California, where it grows in high exposed mountainside talus. It is a perennial herb forming a clump in the volcanic rocks. The branching stem is covered in fleshy, glandular, hairy leaves, each divided into many lobes. The inflorescence is a cluster of 6 to 9 tubular purple flowers, each with a face up to 1.5 centimeters wide.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Collomia larsenii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
