Common Whipplea

Whipplea modesta Torr. Pacif. R. R. Rep, 4 : 90. 1857
Stems or branches spreading, reclining or trailing, 2-5 dm. long, the young parts at least finely pubescent, the several or many short flowering branches closely strigillose ; leafblades ovate to oval, occasionally narrowly so, mainly 1-3.5 cm. long, appressed-pubescent, shallowly few-toothed, sessile or nearly so; cymes slender-peduncled, 1-2 cm. wide; pedicels 2-4 mm. long ; hypanthium broadly turbinate, becoming hemispheric; sepals triangular-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, obtuse, strigillose ; petals white, somewhat rhombic, about 3 mm. long, rounded at the apex ; stamens about as long as the petals, the filaments linear to linear-lanceolate ; capsules 2-2.5 mm. wide, the carpels 1.5-2 mm. long ; seeds about 1.5 mm. long.
Type locality : Redwoods, California.
Distribution : Coast range, middle California.