Hoita douglasii

Hoita douglasii (Greene) Rydberg
Psoralea macroslachya Und. Bot. Reg. 21: pi. 1769. 1835. Not P. macroslachya DC. 1825 Psoralea strobilma T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 689. 1840 Psoralea Douglasii Greene, Erythea 3: 99. 1895.
A perennial; stem 1-2 m. high, glabrous, glandular-scabrous or in a variety (Bridges 74) canescent-puberulent; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules subulate, about 5 mm. long; petioles 3-5 cm. long; leaflets rhombic-lanceolate or rhombic-ovate, acute, 2-6 cm. long, more or less puberulent, rarely cinereous; peduncles 5-13 cm. long; racemes 5-8 cm. long; rachis longhairy; bracts broadly ovate, short-acuminate, 1 cm. long or more, conspicuously glandular and somewhat hairy; calyx long-hairy, the upper 3 clefts about equal, the lower 2 much deeper; lowest lobe lanceolate, 7 mm. long, the upper 4 scarcely more than 2 mm. long; corolla 8-9 mm. long, purplish; banner orbicular, with a short claw; blades of the wings oblong, with a rounded basal lobe, 7 mm. long, those of the keel-petals broadly lunate, 5 mm. long, the claws of both 3 mm. long; pod as in the preceding.
Type locality: California.
Distribution: Central and southern California