Biology:Horkelia hispidula

From HandWiki
Revision as of 16:28, 13 August 2022 by imported>John Stpola (add)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Short description: Species of flowering plant

Horkelia hispidula
White Mountains horkelia, Horkelia hispidula (17575920759).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Horkelia
Species:
H. hispidula
Binomial name
Horkelia hispidula
Rydb.

Horkelia hispidula is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common name White Mountains horkelia. It is endemic to the White Mountains, a small mountain range that straddles the border between California and Nevada east of the Sierra Nevada. It is a resident of dry scrub and alpine and subalpine forest habitat. This is a perennial herb producing a low mat of hairy, glandular greenish gray foliage about a woody base. The leaves are cylindrical and sometimes taper to a point, growing erect in a patch around the caudex. Each leaf is up to 10 centimeters long and is made up of crowded pairs of hairy leaflets. The inflorescence is an array of up to 15 flowers atop an erect stalk, each flower made up of five hairy, pointed, reflexed sepals and five white petals.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5903649 entry