Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Idaho and Montana.
Habitat: Open gravelly or rocky slopes and rock crevices at middle to high elevations in the mountains.
Flowers: May-August
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Succulent perennial from a large, branched, fleshy root, the several flowering stems 10-30 cm. tall.
Leaves all basal, numerous, linear-oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, 2-10 cm. long and 3-8 mm. wide; stems with several entire to glandular-dentate bracts.
Inflorescence a many-flowered panicle with glandular-dentate bracts; sepals 2, glandular-dentate, 1.5-2 mm. long, persistent; petals 7-9, from nearly white with pink venation to magenta-rose, 5-13 mm. long; stamens 5-6; style 1, with 3-8 elongate stigmas.
Capsule about twice the length of the sepals.
Publication: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1: 269. 1897.
Oreobroma columbianum (Howell ex A. Gray) Howell
Talinum denticulatum Poelln.
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var. columbiana – Columbia lewisia
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to central Washington, vicinity of Columbia River Gorge, and central Cascades in Oregon. -
var. rupicola – Columbia lewisia Occurring in the Olympic Mountains and Mt. Rainier in Washington; southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Clatsop County, Oregon.
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var. wallowensis
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Lewisia columbiana in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Lewisia columbiana checklist entry
OregonFlora: Lewisia columbiana information
E-Flora BC: Lewisia columbiana atlas page
CalPhotos: Lewisia columbiana photos
