Horkelia sericata |
Horkelia hispidula |
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Howell's horkelia, silky horkelia |
White Mountain horkelia, White Mountains. horkelia |
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Habit | Plants ± tufted, silvery. | Plants 0.7–3 dm diam. |
Stems | ascending to erect, 1.5–4.5 dm, hairs 1 mm proximally, glands absent or sparse distally. |
ascending to erect, 1–2.5 dm. |
Basal leaves | ± cylindric to weakly planar, 3–10 × 0.3–1.2 cm, densely sericeous, often villous on margins apically; stipules usually entire or forked, rarely pinnately divided into linear lobes; leaflets (8–)10–20 per side, ± overlapping, elliptic to flabellate, 2–8 × 1–4 mm, 1/2–2/3 as wide as long, divided ± 1/2+ to midrib into (0–)2–4 elliptic lobes 1–2 mm wide, these not restricted to apex. |
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. |
Cauline leaves | (2 or)3–5; stipules 3–8 mm, entire or shallowly 1–2-toothed. |
3–7. |
Inflorescences | open, flowers arranged individually and/or in non-capitate glomerules. |
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Pedicels | 1–4 mm. |
2–8(–12) mm. |
Flowers | 10 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets linear-lanceolate, 1.5–3 × 0.5 mm, ± 2/3 length of sepals; hypanthium 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, 2–4 mm; petals white to pink or red-veined, narrowly obcordate, 3–4.5(–7) × 2–3 mm, apex ± emarginate; filaments 0.5–1.5 × 0.2–0.5 mm, anthers 0.4–0.6 mm; carpels 2–6; styles 1.5–2 mm. |
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. |
Achenes | brown, 2–2.5 mm, smooth. |
brown to dark brown, 1.5–2 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
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Horkelia sericata |
Horkelia hispidula |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Chaparral, oak-conifer woodlands, on serpentine-derived soil | Dry, rocky alpine flats, in subalpine conifer woodlands |
Elevation | 100–1200 m (300–3900 ft) | 3000–3400 m (9800–11200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; NV |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. D. D. Keck (1938) expanded the circumscription of Horkelia sericata to encompass the plants segregated here as H. howellii, on the grounds that intergradation is too extensive to justify taxonomic recognition of the extremes. In this evaluation, however, most collections can be unequivocally divided between plants with compact silvery-sericeous leaves with entire or forked stipules (H. sericata), and plants with larger, greener leaves and pinnately divided stipules (H. howellii). It is not known if the chromosome count provided by P. A. Munz (1959) was derived from H. howellii or H. sericata. As here circumscribed, Horkelia sericata is a localized taxon known only from Curry County, Oregon, and the Gasquet serpentine area in adjacent Del Norte County, California. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 265. | FNA vol. 9, p. 249. |
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Horkelia > sect. Tridentatae | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Horkelia > sect. Hispidulae |
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Synonyms | Potentilla sericata | Potentilla hispidula |
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 20: 364. (1885) | Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 278. (1908) |
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