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White Mountain horkelia, White Mountains. horkelia

chamise horkelia, Parry horkelia, Parry's horkelia

Habit Plants 0.7–3 dm diam. Plants forming open mats.
Stems

ascending to erect, 1–2.5 dm.

ascending to erect, 1–3(–3.5) dm.

Basal leaves

3–10 × 0.4–0.8 cm;

leaflets (6–)10–14 per side, ± overlapping at least distally, cuneate to flabellate, 2.5–4(–6) mm, divided 3/4+ to midrib into 3–6 oblanceolate to obovate lobes, hispid.

4–10(–12) × 1–2 cm;

leaflets 3–6(or 7) per side, narrowly obovate, 5–12(–15) × 4–8(–10) mm, 1/2–3/4 as wide as long, divided ± 1/4 to midrib into 5–10 oblong to broadly obovate teeth, sparsely pilose especially on midveins and margins.

Cauline leaves

3–7.

1–4.

Pedicels

2–8(–12) mm.

(3–)5–15 mm.

Flowers

3–15, 10 mm diam.;

epicalyx bractlets linear to lanceolate, 1.5–3 × 0.2–0.5 mm, ± 2/3 length of sepals;

hypanthium 1.8–3 × 3–4 mm, ± 1/2 as deep as wide, interior sparsely pilose;

sepals reflexed, broadly lanceolate, 2.5–4(–5) mm, hairs stiff, 0.5 mm;

petals not pink-tinged, oblanceolate to oblong or narrowly elliptic, 2.5–5 mm, apex rounded to truncate, sometimes slightly emarginate or mucronate;

filaments white, 0.5–2 × 0.4–0.6 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose adaxially, anthers 0.5–0.9 mm;

carpels (10–)12–18(–20);

styles 1.8–2.2 mm.

15 mm diam.;

epicalyx bractlets linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2–5 × 0.5–1.5 mm, ± 2/3 length of sepals;

hypanthium 0.6–1 × 2.5–4 mm, less than 1/3 as deep as wide;

sepals ± spreading to reflexed, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 3.5–6 mm;

petals elliptic to obovate, 4–7 × 3 mm, apex obtuse to rounded to truncate or slightly emarginate;

filaments 1–3 × 0.6–1.3 mm, anthers 0.6–1 mm;

carpels (17–)20–50;

styles 1.5–2.5 mm.

Achenes

brown to dark brown, 1.5–2 mm.

grayish, 1.3–1.5 mm, finely reticulate.

2n

= 28.

Horkelia hispidula

Horkelia parryi

Phenology Flowering summer. Flowering late spring–early summer.
Habitat Dry, rocky alpine flats, in subalpine conifer woodlands Chaparral, pine-oak woodlands, primarily on Ione Formation, rarely on schist or limestone
Elevation 3000–3400 m (9800–11200 ft) 80–900 m (300–3000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

When describing Horkelia hispidula, Rydberg associated it with H. sericata in his group Sericatae. The species is known only from the White Mountains of California and adjacent Nevada.

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

Of conservation concern.

Horkelia parryi is known from the foothills of the western Sierra Nevada in Amador, Calaveras, and El Dorado counties, and is disjunct in Mariposa County.

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

Source FNA vol. 9, p. 249. FNA vol. 9, p. 258.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Horkelia > sect. Hispidulae Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Horkelia > sect. Parryae
Sibling taxa
H. bolanderi, H. californica, H. clevelandii, H. congesta, H. cuneata, H. daucifolia, H. fusca, H. hendersonii, H. howellii, H. marinensis, H. parryi, H. rydbergii, H. sericata, H. tenuiloba, H. tridentata, H. truncata, H. tularensis, H. wilderae, H. yadonii
H. bolanderi, H. californica, H. clevelandii, H. congesta, H. cuneata, H. daucifolia, H. fusca, H. hendersonii, H. hispidula, H. howellii, H. marinensis, H. rydbergii, H. sericata, H. tenuiloba, H. tridentata, H. truncata, H. tularensis, H. wilderae, H. yadonii
Synonyms Potentilla hispidula Potentilla parryi
Name authority Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 278. (1908) Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 416. (1887)
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