Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Horkelia puberula (Greene) Rydb. Bull. Torrey
Club 25: 55, 1898.
Potentilla puberula Greene, Pittonia 1 : 102. 1887.
Perennial, with a scaly rootstock and a short woody caudex ; stems mostly several, 3-6 dm. high, branched, finely glandular-puberulent, leafy ; stipules obovate, often toothed ; basal leaves numerous, puberulent or glabrate ; leaflets 5-8 pairs, obovate or cuneate-oblong, 1-2.5 cm. long, coarsely and deeply toothed; stem-leaves similar but smaller and with fewer leaflets ; cyme open, branched, with rather spreading branches; pedicels 5-15 mm. long ; flowers about 10 mm. wide ; hypanthium glandular-puberulent, cupulate, about half as deep as wide, in fruit about 8 mm. in diameter ; bractlets broadly lanceolate, shorter than the ovate-lanceolate sepals, which are 5-6 mm. long, acuminate ; petals oblongspatulate, a little exceeding the sepals, rounded at the apex.
Type locality : Mesas, five miles west of San Bernardino, California.
Distribution : Southern California.
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
