Vancouveria chrysantha |
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golden inside-out flower, Siskiyou inside-out-flower, yellow vancouveria |
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Leaves | persistent, 2-ternately compound or 3-5-foliolate, 10-18 cm; petiole 3-12 cm, sparsely hairy. |
Leaflet | blades ovate to oblong, slightly 3-lobed, leathery, base cordate, margins thickened, crisped, apex notched; surfaces abaxially pubescent, glaucous, adaxially glabrous to rarely pubescent. |
Inflorescences | peduncle 2-3 dm; pedicel 1-4 cm, stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | 4-15; bracteoles 6-9, tan to brown, 1-4 mm, caducous, stipitate-glandular; sepals 6, yellow, spatulate, 6-10 mm, stipitate-glandular; petals 6, yellow, 4-6 mm, margins entire, apex strongly reflexed, apical nectary darker yellow; filaments stipitate-glandular. |
Seeds | 3-10, reddish brown, reniform to oblong, 3-4 mm. |
Follicles | greenish brown, 8-15 mm including beak, beak 3-4 mm, densely stipitate-glandular. |
2n | = 12. |
Vancouveria chrysantha |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (May–Jun); fruiting spring–summer (Jun–Jul). |
Habitat | Open, mixed evergreen forests and thickets on serpentine substrates |
Elevation | 100-1500 m (300-4900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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Source | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Berberidaceae > Vancouveria |
Sibling taxa | |
Name authority | Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 66. (1885) |
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