Physocarpus monogynus |
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low ninebark, mountain nine-bark |
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Habit | Shrubs, 10 dm. |
Stems | often decumbent, spreading, reddish brown becoming dark gray, glabrous or sparsely stellate-hairy. |
Leaves | stipules linear to narrowly elliptic or subulate, 4–5 × 1 mm, base attenuate, apex acute; petiole 0.5–2.2 cm; blade broadly ovate, 1.5–4 × 2–4.5 cm, sometimes wider than long, base usually truncate to cordate, rarely broadly cuneate, 0 or 1–5-lobed, margins doubly crenate to doubly serrate, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely stellate-hairy. |
Inflorescences | 10(–15)–30-flowered, fairly dense, hemispheric racemes, 4 cm diam.; bracts linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, 2–4 mm, apex acute, rarely 2-fid. |
Pedicels | 8–18 mm, sparsely to moderately stellate-hairy. |
Flowers | 8–10 mm diam.; hypanthium cup-shaped, 1.7–2 mm, sparsely to moderately stellate-hairy; sepals triangular to ovate, 3 mm, apex gland-tipped, surfaces sparsely to moderately stellate-hairy; petals white, broadly elliptic to orbiculate, 4.5 × 4 mm; stamens 20–40, ± equal to petals; carpels (1)2(3), connate at least 1/2 their lengths, densely stellate-hairy. |
Seeds | 1–3, pyriform, 2–2.5 mm. |
Follicles | (1)2(3), inflated, 2.5 mm (lengths shorter than sepals), densely stellate-hairy, hairs white; styles 3.5 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
Physocarpus monogynus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug; fruiting Jul–Oct. |
Habitat | Open rocky wooded slopes, seepage ledges, canyons |
Elevation | 1800–2600 m (5900–8500 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; MT; NM; NV; OK; SD; TX; UT; WY
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 350. |
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Neillieae > Physocarpus |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Spiraea monogyna |
Name authority | (Torrey) J. M. Coulter: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 2: 104. (1891) |
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