Rupertia rigida

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Rupertia rigida
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Rupertia
Species:
R. rigida
Binomial name
Rupertia rigida
(Parish) J.W.Grimes
Synonyms

Psoralea rigida

Rupertia rigida is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Parish's California tea, [1] or Parish's rupertia.

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It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it is an uncommon member of the local mountain flora, growing in chaparral, woodland, and forest habitat types.

Description

It is a bushy perennial herb producing a hairy, woody stem from a thick, purplish caudex, approaching 75 centimeters in maximum height with slender, leafy branches. The leaves are each made up of three hairy, glandular, lance-shaped leaflets up to 6 or 7 centimeters long.

The inflorescence is a clustered raceme of several whitish or yellowish pealike flowers. Each flower has a tubular calyx of sepals and a corolla spreading to about 1.5 centimeters in width.

The fruit is a hairy, gland-speckled, brownish legume around a centimeter long.

References

  1. ↑ NRCS. "Rupertia rigida". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 26 October 2015.

(Parish) J.W.Grimes


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