Distribution: Occurring in the Cascades and Olympic mountains in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada.
Habitat: Alpine meadows, slopes, and rocky areas.
Flowers: June-September
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps
Dwarf perennial from a short, woody base, 3-40 cm. tall.
Basal leaves persistent, entire, linear to linear-elliptic or oblanceolate, 2-25 cm. long and 1-15 mm. wide; cauline leaves few and much reduced.
Heads solitary; involucre 3-15 mm. high, the bracts imbricate, papery at the base, often purplish, with short woolly hairs on the margins and under the heads; rays 10-40, violet or lavender, 7-15 mm. long
Publication: Pittonia. 4: 224. 1900.
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var. alpigenum – alpine aster, tundra mountaincrown
Occurring in the Cascades and Olympic mountains in Washington; Washington to Oregon.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Oreostemma alpigenum in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Oreostemma alpigenum checklist entry
OregonFlora: Oreostemma alpigenum information
E-Flora BC: Oreostemma alpigenum atlas page
CalPhotos: Oreostemma alpigenum photos
