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dwarf false rue anemone, Siskiyou false rue anemone, Siskiyou rue-anemone, western isopyrum

western false rue anemone, western rue-anemone

Stems

3-12 cm, cespitose, not rhizomatous;

roots tuberous.

10-40 cm, cespitose, not rhizomatous;

roots tuberous.

Leaves

abaxially glabrous;

leaflets entire or deeply 2-3-lobed, apex rounded, glandular-apiculate.

abaxially glabrous;

leaflets irregularly 2-3-lobed, lobes often with 1-3 secondary lobes;

apex rounded, glandular-apiculate.

Inflorescences

axillary, flowers solitary;

peduncle strongly clavate.

axillary, flowers solitary or loosely grouped in 2-3-flowered leafy cymes;

peduncle not strongly clavate.

Flowers

sepals 3.5-6 × 1.4-2.5 mm;

stamens 8-15;

filaments flat, narrowly triangular, 1.9-3.2 mm.

sepals (5-)7-11.5 × 2.8-7 mm;

stamens 20-40;

filaments filiform to club-shaped, 2.2-6 mm.

Seeds

0.9-1.4(-1.7) mm, glabrous.

1.5-2 mm, glabrous.

Follicles

stipitate, upright and appressed;

body oblong, 4-8(-9) mm, abruptly contracted into style beak;

beak 0.5-1.5 mm.

sessile, upright to widely divergent;

body oblong, (7.7-)8.5-11.5 mm, abruptly contracted into style beak;

beak 0.8-1.7 mm.

Enemion stipitatum

Enemion occidentale

Phenology Flowering late winter–early spring. Flowering early spring.
Habitat Shaded shrubby areas, oak woodlands, and moist deciduous or mixed evergreen forests, occasionally in open pastures Shaded places, oak woodland, chaparral, and coniferous and deciduous woods
Elevation 200-1500 m (700-4900 ft) 200-1500 m (700-4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
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from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Enemion occidentale is endemic to California where it is infrequent and local (P. A. Munz 1959).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 3. FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Ranunculaceae > Enemion Ranunculaceae > Enemion
Sibling taxa
E. biternatum, E. hallii, E. occidentale, E. savilei
E. biternatum, E. hallii, E. savilei, E. stipitatum
Synonyms Isopyrum stipitatum Isopyrum occidentale
Name authority (A. Gray) J. R. Drummond & Hutchinson: Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1920: 160. (1920) (Hooker & Arnott) J. R. Drummond & Hutchinson: Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1920: 160. (1920)
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