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Lithophragma tenellum
Also called Slender Fringecup, Slender Prairie Star
Lithophragma tenellum is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family known by the common name slender woodland star.
It is native to much of western North America from British Columbia to California to New Mexico, where it grows in several types of open habitat. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing erect or leaning with a naked flowering stem. The leaves are mainly located low on the stem, each divided into three toothed lobes. The stem bears 3 to 12 flowers, each in a cuplike calyx of red or green sepals. The five petals are white or pink, up to 7 millimeters long, and lined with several lobes or teeth.
San Francisco woodland-star · Bolander's woodland-star · Siskiyou Mountain woodland-star · Mission woodland-star · Bulbous woodland-star · Hillside woodland-star · San Clemente Island woodland-star · Smallflower woodland-star · Prairie Woodland Star · Woodland-star
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lithophragma tenellum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
