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Signs: Great-Flowered Gaillardia / Silverleaf Psoralea
Located in the Signal Hill Nature Habitat
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(Unless otherwise indicated, photos by Don of www.Tatagwa.com)
Great-Flowered Gaillardia
(Gaillardia aristata Pursh)
This plant was used by Saskatchewan natives for
medicinal purposes. The underground parts were used
to relieve inflammation of the digestive track tissues.
Another use for this plant was as eye drops.
Silverleaf Psoralea
(Psoralea agrophylla Pursh)
This legume is a common sight in the
later part of summer. It is easily identifiable by the
silvery colour of the leaves and stem. The stem is
branched and as tall as one metre. Leaves are arranged
as three to five leaflets on the ends of short petioles.
Flowers are purple or blue with unequal lobes extending
from a silvery calyx. They are arranged in an interrupted
whorled spike.