Arrowleaf Balsamroot - Identification and Description An Edible and Medicinal Plant

Arrowleaf Balsamroot - Balsamorhiza sagittata
also Arrow-leaved Balsamroot

Identification
Arrowleaf balsamroot are found throughout western North America and bloom from late spring to mid summer from low to mid elevations on open sunny slopes and rocky hillsides. They have long stalked basal leaves that are heart shaped or arrowhead shaped and are 8 to 24 inches long and covered in fine wooly hairs. The arrowleaf balsamroot flowers look like sunflowers and are composite flowers with ray florets around disc florets.

Arrowleaf balsamroot is an edible and medicinal plant found on rocky slopes and sunny hillsides in western North America. This video shows how to identify it and describes some of its edible and medicinal uses.

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References

Kloos, Scott. Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants. Timber Press, Inc. 2017

MacKinnon, A. Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada. Lone Pine Media Productions (BC) Ltd. 2014.

Parish, R.; Coupe, R.; and Lloyd, D. Plants of the Inland Northwest and Southern Interior British Columbia. BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing. 2018

Turner, N. J. Food Plants of Interior First Peoples. Royal BC Museum. 2014

Warnock, Caleb. 437 Edible Wild Plants of the Rocky Mountain West. Familius LLC. 2018.