Parish's California Tea

Hoita rigida (Parish) Rydberg
Psoralea rigida Parish, Bull. Torrey Club 19: 91. 1892.
A perennial; stem erect, 3-6 dm. high, strigose-puberulent and sparingly glandular, angled and striate, branched above; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules lanceolate or subulate, 1 cm. long or less; petioles 2-4 cm. long; leaflets short-petioluled, ovate, lanceolate and acute, or those of the lower leaves ovate or oval and obtuse, rounded or retuse, glandular-punctate, glabrous above, sparingly pubescent beneath, 3-10 cm. long, 1-5 cm. broad, reticulate, firm; peduncles axillary, 3-7 cm. long; racemes short and dense, 2-3 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 4-5 mm. long, white-pubescent; calyx short-pubescent, with mixed white and black hairs, conspicuously glandular; tube campanulate, 4-5 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, the upper 3-4 mm. long, the lowest one 4-5 mm. long; corolla whitish or ochroleucous with purple-tipped keel; banner oblanceolate in outline, with indistinct rounded basal lobes, tapering into a long broad claw; blades of the wings obliquely lunate, with an ovate basal lobe, those of the keel broader, two thirds as long, with a rounded basal lobe; pod 8-10 mm. long, ovoid, minutely punctate! firm, somewhat roughened, strigose with mixed white and black hairs.
Type locality: Oak Grove, San Diego County, California Distribution: Southern California.