202 HANDBOOK 148, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



7. Leaves compound. [Alternate 7, p. 169.] 

 31. Stems unarmed; erect or prostrate shrubs. 

 32. Leaflets finely divided, fern- or tansy-like, winter persistent, 



clustered near tips of short, leaf-scarred, spurlike twigs or 

 scattered along flowering shoots, with both reddish gland- 

 tipped and white-woolly star-shaped hairs, fragrant; 



stipules lance-shaped, entire, leaving scar with a single 

 bundle trace at either end of leaf scar when they finally 

 fall; leaf scars with 3 bundle traces; twigs reddish, with 

 tack-shaped glands, often very resinous; flowers white, in 

 branched, pyramidal end clusters (panicles); seed pods 

 (follicles) splitting across top and down on inner side, 5 for 

 each flower, united at base and cupped in persistent, 5-lobed 

 calyx fringed inside by many drying-persistent stamens; 

 central fruit-cluster stalk hardening and becoming sharp- 





Scaly underground stem 



Leaflet, with typically 

 rounded tip 



Creeping mahonia or Hollygrape 



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