Mead’s Shootingstar

Dodecatheon meadia meadia

Ecology & Conservation

Proximity Score: 3a
Native Status: ❌ Outaouais ❌ Ottawa ❌ QC ❌ ON
Closest Direction: S
CEC Eco-Regions: 8 – Eastern Temperate Forests, 8.4 – Ozark, Ouachita-Appalachian Forests, 8.4.1 – Ridge and Valley
Rarity Notes: Globally secure (G5) but not native to Ontario or Quebec per VASCAN and NatureServe. Native range in Canada is limited to Manitoba. In the US, distributed across 27 states from the Great Plains to the eastern seaboard. Not listed under SARA.
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Migration: Disjunct
Ecological Context: A prairie and savanna specialist of the central and eastern United States. Grows in dry to mesic thin woods, river bottoms, open prairies, and calcareous fens. In Michigan it is very rare, known from a fen and a prairie-like roadside strip, often associated with Zizia aurea, Cypripedium candidum, and Eryngium yuccifolium. Nearest documented populations to the Outaouais are in the Ridge and Valley ecoregion of Pennsylvania and Maryland, on limestone outcrops and wooded bluffs.
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❌ Not Edible

Foraging Notes: No documented edible uses found in Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database or PFAF.
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