Wildflowers Found in Oregon

Few Flowered Shootingstar (Pretty Shootingstar)

Dedecatheon pulchellum - Common, midspring, perennial, 6-20 in. Erect stem, upright spreading leaves. Plant hairless. Leaves oval to egg-shaped, often with some fine teeth, 2-10 in. long, entire, narrowing gradually to petiole. Flowers 2-15 atop stem. Flower with 5 of all parts; petals 1/4 to 1/2 in. long, magenta to lavender with large white spot near base, dark ring at base; tube yellow where joined, purple-black near tip. Grows along streambanks, waterfalls, wet meadows, seeps, sometimes in salt water near coast, at low to high elevations.