About Lithophragma parviflorum (Hook.) Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray
Lithophragma parviflorum (Hook.) Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family, commonly called smallflower woodland star. It is native to a large portion of western North America, ranging from British Columbia to California, and extending east to South Dakota and Nebraska, where it grows in multiple types of open habitat. This is a rhizomatous perennial herb that grows either erect or leaning, with a naked flowering stem. Most of its leaves are positioned low on the stem; each leaf is either cut into three lobes, or divided into three lobed leaflets. The stem can hold up to 14 flowers. Each flower sits in a cuplike calyx made of red or green sepals. It has five bright white petals that reach up to 1.6 centimeters long, and are usually split into three toothlike lobes. The bulblets of this plant may produce toxins that can poison livestock, while rodents eat these bulblets with no recorded adverse effects.
