Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Edwinia americana (T. & G.) Heller, Bull. Torrey
Club 24: 477. 1897.
Jamesia americana T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 593, 1840.
A shrub 0.5-2 m. tall, the young branches finely pubescent, the bark red or purplish, exfoliating ; leaves approximate at the ends of the branches, the blades ovate to oval or suborbicular, 1.5-6 cm. long, serrate, finely and usually densely paleor whitish-tomentulose beneath, conspicuously many-veined, slender-petioled ; cymes rather manyflowered; hypanthium broadly turbinate during anthesis, becoming 2-3 mm. long and swollen at maturity; sepals acute, becoming 2-3 mm. long; petals cuneate to oblongcuneate, 10-12 mm. long; capsule-body 4-4.5 mm. long, rounded or somewhat ttirbinate at the base, scarcely, if at all, surpassing the sepals.
Type locality : Along the Platte or the Canadian River, near the Rocky Mountains?
Distribution : Wyoming to Utah and New Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
