Horkelia parryi |
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chamise horkelia, Parry horkelia, Parry's horkelia |
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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 |
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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 |
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. |
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Synonyms | Potentilla parryi |
Name authority | Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 416. (1887) |
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