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§1 Plant — species · Portulacaceae
Lewisia rediviva Pursh
vernacular bitter root
PlateNo public-domain or CC photograph located.
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Portulacaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Lewisia
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 21 of 56 Montana counties.
Native · 21 counties
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Cascade 30013
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Jefferson 30043
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Madison 30057
- Missoula 30063
- Park 30067
- Phillips 30071
- Ravalli 30081
- Silver Bow 30093
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LERE7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5384259 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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