Delphinium burkei Greene

Washington: Kittitas County: Near highway about 5 miles n.e. of Teanaway Junction, about 4 miles s.w. of Virden.
T20N R16E S30
Datum: NAD 27. Uncertainty: 800 meters. Coordinate Source: TRS2LL.
In heavy adobe soil. Soil now dry but earlier very springy; plants associated with Camassia, Wyethia, and Poa pratensis. Roots small fleshy, fascicled, not at all fibrous, close to the ground surface, firmly attached to the (usually) single or 2 or 3 stems; leaves strongly dimorphic, not fleshy, all plants examined (of the several hundred in the colony) eglandular; sepals deep bluish-purple, a few more nearly blue, others nearly purple, not widely spread, but rather (especially the lower) cupped forward; petals colored about as the sepals, the upper ones whitish-based, the lower ones deeply bifid; follicles scarcely at all spreading; racemes spike-like, the pedicels nearly erect both in flower and fruit; here there is no indication whatever of intermediacy toward D. multiplex, with which D. burkei hybridizes when the two contact. Phenology: Flowers.

C. Leo Hitchcock 20888, Jun 29, 1956
With C.V. Muhlick
ID, Accession: 38791, Barcode: ID040661