Horkelia hispidula |
Horkelia parryi |
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White Mountain horkelia, White Mountains. horkelia |
chamise horkelia, Parry horkelia, Parry's horkelia |
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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. |
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Horkelia hispidula |
Horkelia parryi |
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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 |
CA; NV |
CA
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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. |
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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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