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| Distribution | Native to the Pacific coast of North America from Alaska to California, disjunct in South America from Chile to Argentina and the Juan Fernández and Hawaiian islands.
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Habit
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Perennial herbs from stout scaly rhizomes usually 1-4 cm long, also producing long stolons.
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Leaves
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Leaves somewhat coriaceous, leaflets 2.1-5(-6) cm long, 1.2-3.5 cm wide, upper surface with conspicuously impressed veins, glabrous or with a few scattered long hairs, lower surface densely silky long-strigose, margins coarsely serrate, sometimes only in upper 2/3, lateral petiolules 0.2-0.8 cm long, the terminal ones 0.2-1(-2.5) cm long, petioles (3-)12-16(-21) cm long, densely long-strigose, stipules brownish, 1-1.6 cm long.
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Flowers
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Flowers 1 to several, scapes usually ca. 1/2 as long as petioles at anthesis, apparently elongating after anthesis to nearly as long as petioles, pedicels usually 20-50 mm long; epicalyx lobes narrowly lanceolate, (3-)5-6 mm long, densely silky long-strigose; sepals lanceolate, ca. 7-8 mm long, enlarging to 9-10 mm long in fruit, densely silky long-strigose; petals white, broadly obovate, 8-11 mm long.
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Fruit
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Fruit red, broadly conical, ca. 1-1.5 cm long, hirsutulous, achenes ca. 1.5 mm long, slightly embedded in shallow pits of the receptacle.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 56*
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