Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Horkelia parviflora Nutt.; H. & A. Bot
Beech. Vov. 338. 1838.
Poieniilla Andersonit Greene, Pittonia 1 : 104. 1887.
Perennial, with a short woody caudex ; stems erect or ascending, densely glandular and more or less tinged with red, 1-2 dm. high ;' stipules lanceolate ; basal leaves numerous ; leaflets 5-8 pairs, more or less densely hirsute and glandular, obovate or nearly orbicular, coarsely crenate ; stem-leaves similar but with cuneate leaflets; cyme subcapitate; hypanthium cup-shaped, 2-3 mm. in diameter, hirsute and glandular, often tinged with purple ; bractlets linear or nearly filiform, much shorter than the broadly lanceolate sepals, which are 2-3 mm. long ; petals broadly cuneate, spatulate or obovate, 2-3 mm. long, emarginate.
Type locality : " California" ; but Nuttall's specimens were collected on the plains of the Oregon towards the Rocky Mountains.
Distribution : Sierra Nevada of California andmountains of adjacent Nevada and Oregon.
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
