Key to Valeriana

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(For a list of species in Valeriana, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Corolla 3–4.5 mm, throat ± > 

lobes 

1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.

2. Corolla throat 

asymmetric 

Not divisible into identical or mirror-image halves.

, with small swelling on 1 side just distal to tube; leaves generally short-hairy ..... V. californica

2' Corolla throat symmetric, evenly 

tapered 

Gradually (not abruptly) narrower or smaller at base or tip.

to tube on all sides; leaves glabrous to sparsely hairy – Wrn ..... V. occidentalis

1' Corolla 4.5–8 mm, throat ± 2 × lobes

3. All 

basal 

At or near the base of a plant or plant part. Especially said of leaves clustered near the ground or of a placenta confined to the base of an ovary.

leaves generally 

simple 

Composed of a single part; undivided; unbranched.

; W&I ..... V. pubicarpa

3' At least some basal leaves lobed to compound; NW ..... V. sitchensis

4. Leaflets not lobed, fine-crenate to -dentate; < 1200 m ..... subsp. scouleri

4' Leaflets irregularly lobed to sparsely toothed; 1500–2200 m ..... subsp. sitchensis

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