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2. ODOSTEMON Raf. 
Shrubs with compound leaves, the stems without spines; leaflets mostly coriaceous, 
persistent, sinuate-dentate with few or many spiny teeth; flowers in rather loose 
racemes, the parts, except the pistil, in 6’s; fruit a few-seeded berry. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Low shrub, 10 to 30 cm. high, with but few leaves; leaflets with 
numerous small teeth..........-....--.-.----------------- 1. O. repens. 
Tall shrubs, often 150 cm. high or more, with numerous leaves; 
leaflets with few coarse teeth. 
Leaves trifoliolate; fruit red.........2..22...-20-2.--22-------- 2. O. trifoliolatus. 
Leaves with 5 to 7 leaflets; fruit variously colored. 
Leaflets usually 7, oblong-ovate, bright green, mostly more 
than 3 cm. long.............2-.--.-------0-0-2-02 eee 5. O. wilcoxii. 
Leaflets 5, lanceolate, glaucous, 3 cm. long or mostly less. 
Fruit juicy, not inflated at maturity, blood red; 
terminal leaflet long-attenuate, comparatively 
NAITOW....--- 22 -ee  eeeee 3. O. haemato- 
carpus. 
Fruit dry and inflated at maturity, dark blue; terminal 
leaflet acute, broad............-.-------------- 4. O. fremontii. 
1. Odostemon repens (Lindl.) Cockerell, Univ. Mo. Stud. Sci, 2?: 125. 1911. 
OREGON GRAPE. 
Berberis repens Lindl. in Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 14: pl. 1176. 1828. 
Berberis nana Greene, Pittonia 3: 98. 1896. 
Type Locauity: “‘A native of the north-western part of North America.”’ 
RanGE: British Columbia and Wyoming to California and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Tunitcha and Carrizo Mountains; Dulce; Chama; Ramah; Santa Fe 
and Las Vegas mountains; Zuni Mountains; Sandia Mountains; Black Range; Luna; 
Sacramento Mountains. Shaded hillsides, in the Transition and Canadian zones. 
A decoction of the leaves and branches of this plant was used by the Navahos in 
treating rheumatism. 
2. Odostemon trifoliolatus (Moric.) Heller, Muhlenbergia '7: 139. 1912. 
Berberis trifoliolata Moric. Pl. Amer. Rar. 113. pl. 69. 1841. 
Type Locauity: ‘Hab. in Republica Mexicana, inter Laredo et Bejar.”’ This is 
now Texas. The type was collected by Berlandier. 
Rance: Western Texas to Arizona. 
New Mexico: Near Hermanas; Carrizalillo Mountains. Dry hills, in the Lower 
Sonoran Zone. 
8. Odostemon haematocarpus (Wooton) Heller, Muhlenbergia 7: 139. 1912. 
Berberis haematocarpa Wooton, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 304. 1898. 
Type Locauity: Mescalero Agency in the White Mountains, New Mexico. Type 
collected by Wooton (no. 376), 
Rance: New Mexico and southern Arizona. 
New Mexico: Manzano and Sandia Mountains; Gallinas Mountains; Black Range; 
Carlisle; Carrizalillo Mountains; Organ and San Andreas mountains; White and 
Sacramento mountains; Guadalupe Mountains. Dry hillsides, in the Upper Sonoran 
Zone. 
This is a fairly common shrub on the lower slopes of the mountains in the southern 
part of the State. The berries are bright blood red, pleasantly acid to the taste, and 
are used for making jellies. The shrub is evergreen and is well worth cultivation for 
decorative purposes, 
