Horkelia parryi |
Horkelia howellii |
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chamise horkelia, Parry horkelia, Parry's horkelia |
Howell's horkelia, Klamath horkelia |
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Habit | Plants forming open mats. | Plants tufted to openly matted, ± green. |
Stems | ascending to erect, 1–3(–3.5) dm. |
ascending to erect, (0.9–)1.5–5 dm, hairs 1 mm proximally, glands absent or sparse distally. |
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. |
± cylindric to weakly planar, 5–15 × 0.5–1.8(–2.5) cm, usually villous to pilose at least marginally, often glabrescent; stipules deeply 2-lobed or pinnately divided into 3–5 linear to filiform lobes that often form a tangled mass; leaflets 10–15 per side, ± overlapping, elliptic to flabellate, (3–)4–10(–15) × 2–8 mm, 1/2 to as wide as long, divided 1/2–3/4 to midrib into (0–)2–4 elliptic to linear lobes 1–2 mm wide, these not restricted to apex. |
Cauline leaves | 1–4. |
(2 or)3–5; stipules 5–12(–15) mm, entire to deeply 2–4-lobed or -toothed (usually on 1 side). |
Inflorescences | open, flowers arranged individually and/or in non-capitate glomerules. |
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Pedicels | (3–)5–15 mm. |
1–6(–12) 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. |
10 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets linear-lanceolate, 1–3 × 0.5 mm, ± 2/3 length of sepals; hypanthium 1.1–1.5 × 2–3 mm, ± 1/2 to as deep as wide, interior glabrous; sepals spreading to reflexed, abaxially green to reddish or purplish, 2.5–4.5 mm; petals white to pink or red-veined, narrowly obcordate, 3–5 × 2–3 mm, apex truncate or emarginate; filaments 0.5–1.7 × 0.2–0.5 mm, anthers 0.4–0.6 mm; carpels 2–6; styles 1.5–2 mm. |
Achenes | grayish, 1.3–1.5 mm, finely reticulate. |
brown, 2–2.7 mm, smooth. |
2n | = 28. |
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Horkelia parryi |
Horkelia howellii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Chaparral, pine-oak woodlands, primarily on Ione Formation, rarely on schist or limestone | Chaparral, oak-conifer woodlands, mainly on serpentine soil |
Elevation | 80–900 m (300–3000 ft) | 60–1200 m (200–3900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; OR
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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.) |
Of conservation concern. As noted above, Horkelia howellii comprises the bulk of what D. D. Keck (1938) and subsequent floras included in H. sericata, and the range of the latter is fully encompassed within that of the former. As here circumscribed, H. howellii occurs in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. The handful of collections from Humboldt and Trinity counties, California, including the type of Potentilla laxiflora Drew, have leaves approaching H. daucifolia but the inflorescence of H. howellii; exact petal color is uncertain. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 258. | FNA vol. 9, p. 265. |
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Synonyms | Potentilla parryi | Potentilla howellii |
Name authority | Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 416. (1887) | (Greene) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 55. (1898) |
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