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The crushed foliage has a strong musty smell. Below the leaf stems the plant has glands that produce a sticky, sweet-smelling, and edible nectar. The flowers are pink, with a hooded shape, 3 to 4 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) tall and 2 cm (3 ⁄ 4 in) broad; the flower shape has been compared to a policeman's helmet.
The flowers, which appear between late winter and late spring, have dense clusters of pale to deep pink stamens and are about 5 cm (2 in) wide. The shrub is usually between 20 and 50 cm (8 and 20 in) high and has bipinnate leaves. Alternative common names for this species include mock mesquite and mesquitella.
It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial producing clumps of stiff, squared stems 2–4 ft (0.61–1.22 m) tall. The leaves are lanceolate and toothed. The inflorescence is a long, dense raceme containing many tubular pink flowers which resemble snapdragons. The open fruit is shaped like a vase and contains four triangular, black seeds.
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Oenothera speciosa is a herbaceous perennial wildflower.It has glabrous (smooth) to pubescent stems that grow to 50 centimetres (20 inches) in height. The pubescent leaves are alternate with very short or no petiole (sessile), reaching 10 cm (4 in) long to 4 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) broad.
The young flowers are also edible (being made into jelly in the Yukon) [15] and the stems of older plants can be split to extract the edible raw pith. [16] The root can be roasted after scraping off the outside, but often tastes bitter. To mitigate this, the root is collected before the plant flowers and the brown thread in the middle removed. [17]
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