Foothill Jepsonia

Jepsonia heterandra Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 32 : 201. 1905
Caudex simple or branched, often thick and woody, scaly ; leaves erect or ascending, the petioles becoming 2.5-5 cm, long, usually hirsute, the blades suborbicular, 3.5-6 cm. broad, shallowly lobed and toothed, more or less pubescent about the veins beneath, deeply cordate, the basal lobes strongly overlapping ; scapes often tufted, 1-3.3 dm. tall, finely pubescent at least when young; cal>'x-lobes broadly ovate, about 2 mm. long, somewhat shorter than the campanulate tube and hypanthium ; hypanthium broad, with a turbinate base, ultimately slightly veiny ; petals 5-6 mm. long, the blades ovate to oval, abruptly narrowed into short claws ; follicles long-exserted beyond the calyx, the bodies
5-6 mm. long, turbinate at the base, the tips slightly shorter than the bodies.
Type locality : Mariposa County, California. Distribution: Ravines, middle California.