WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



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467. California Meadow Holodiscus discolor and 

 Sweet vars. 



A variable shrub with deeply lobed leaves, white beneath with silky hairs and 

 yellowish green above. Terminal clusters of creamy white flowers. 



From exposed rocky ledges where it is frequent in the eastern Sierras to 

 wooded canyons of the coast hills. 



468. 



469. Goat's Beard 



Chamaebataria mille- 

 folium 



Aruncus Sylvester 



470. Nine Bark 



Opulaster opulifolius 



471. Mountain Misery 



Chamaebatia foliolosa 



A shrub with small fern- 

 like sticky leaves and term- 

 inal clusters of many 

 white flowers in a spicate 

 inflorescence. Southeast- 

 ern Sierras and south. 



A smooth herbaceous per- 

 ennial. Leaves large, com- 

 posed of 3 to 7 leaflets. 

 Numerous small white 

 flowers arranged in pro- 

 fusely spreading sprays. 

 Rich soil along streams 

 in Shasta and Trinity 

 Counties. 



Branching shrub, bark peel- 

 ing off in thin strips. 

 Leaves roundish-ovate 

 with serrated lobes. Flow- 

 ers whitish in globose 

 terminal clusters. Near 

 streams in Bay region and 

 northward, also Sierras. 



A low shrub with a dis- 

 agreeable resinous odor. 

 Leaves 1 to 3 inches long 

 and very finely dissected. 

 Young branches end in 

 flat clusters of several 

 white flowers which are 

 about one-third of an inch 

 across. Western Sierras, 

 Mariposa to Nevada 

 Counties. In some local- 

 ities excluding all other 

 vegetation. 



472. Bitter Brush 



Kunzia Pursha tridentata 



A compact shrub growing among the sagebrush and with leaves like it, but 

 yellowish-green instead of gray; often forming a scraggy tree in the mountains. 

 Numerous sessile yellow flowers along the terminal branchlets in May. Character- 

 istic of the eastern Sierra foothills. Leaves bitter, but eaten extensively by stock, 

 especially in winter. 



473. 



Coleogyne ramosissima 



A much branched some- 

 what spiny shrub of the 

 southern desert regions 

 with showy yellow flow- 

 ers on the terminal 

 branchlets. Should be in 

 cultivation. Not uncom- 

 mon in southern Nevada 

 and probably in southeast- 

 ern California. 



