Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hesperolinon californicum (Benth.) Small
Linum californicum Benth. PI. Hartw. 299. 1848.
Plants 1-4.5 dm. tall, the stem glabrous, glaucous, striate-ridged, more or less branched, the branches dichotomous, the divisions terminating in congested cymules ; leaf-blades narrowly linear, mostly 1-3 cm. long, acutish, entire, often somewhat involute; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller ; sepals glaucous, the outer ones lanceolate to oblonglanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, becoming 4-5 mm. long, acuminate, with few irregularlyplaced glandular teeth, or ultimately entire; inner sepals similar to the outer but slightly shorter and more copiously and more regularly toothed ; petals pink, 4-6 mm. long ; capsules depressed-ovoid, about 3 mm. long, about equaling the sepals.
Type locality. : Valley of the Sacramento. Distribution: Middle and northern California.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
