page_title: Dodecatheon poeticum
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dodecatheon poeticum / History
caption_attribution_description: Dodecatheon poeticum English: Poet's Shooting Star, Narcissus Shooting Star, Poet's Shootingstar Viewpoint location: Catherine Creek Trail (north of road), Catherine Creek Day Use Area Viewpoint elevation: 191 meter (627 ft) Location source: Google Earth Location Datum: WGS84
context_page_description: Dodecatheon poeticum is commonly known as the poet's shooting star or the Narcissus shooting star. D. poeticum is a species of the genus Dodecatheon which is native to the states of Oregon and Washington in western North America. The genus Dodecatheon contains herbaceous flowering plants and is also a part of the primrose family Primulaceae. This plant has basal clumps of leaves and drooping flowers that occur at the apex of tall stems that rise from where the leaves join.
context_section_description: D. poeticum was discovered by Dr. Louis F. Henderson of the University of Oregon in 1930. The discovery of this flower was made shortly after the discovery and identification of another plant from the same genus, Dodecatheon dentatum. During the initial classification of the white colored D. dentataum, botanists must have overlooked the purple pink D. poeticum. Unlike the other species, information regarding the classification of D. poeticum was rare and many botanists claimed texts describing the diversity of flora in northwestern America rarely mentioned its abundance. Due to recent research and classification efforts, D. poeticum now has volumes of information regarding its features and is commonly found in nature and nurseries alike.
caption: The leaves and pedicel are glandular and covered by fine short hairs
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