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chamise horkelia, Parry horkelia, Parry's horkelia

Habit Plants forming open mats.
Stems

ascending to erect, 1–3(–3.5) dm.

Basal leaves

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

1–4.

Pedicels

(3–)5–15 mm.

Flowers

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

grayish, 1.3–1.5 mm, finely reticulate.

2n

= 28.

Horkelia parryi

Phenology Flowering late spring–early summer.
Habitat Chaparral, pine-oak woodlands, primarily on Ione Formation, rarely on schist or limestone
Elevation 80–900 m (300–3000 ft)
Distribution
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CA
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Discussion

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. 258.
Parent taxa 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. hispidula, H. howellii, H. marinensis, H. rydbergii, H. sericata, H. tenuiloba, H. tridentata, H. truncata, H. tularensis, H. wilderae, H. yadonii
Synonyms Potentilla parryi
Name authority Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 416. (1887)
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