WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



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485a. Yerba Del Pasmo Adenostoma sparsifolium 



486. Lady's Mantle 



Alchemilla arvensis 



H. fusca is a very common plant throughout the Sierras with dense clusters of 

 purplish small flowers terminating the stems. 



H. Calif ornica is one of the common species in wooded slopes of the Coast 

 ranges. 



483. Sibbaldia procumbens 



A dwarf Alpine plant resembling Potentilla and frequently forming dense 

 carpets by its sturdy growth. Leaves consist of three few-toothed leaflets. Yellow 

 flowers in clusters. High Sierras. 



484. Ivesia 



A group of perhaps a dozen species of the Sierras or adjacent regions east- 

 ward and very similar to Potentilla. The leaflets are quite numerous and much 

 lobed or dissected. 



P. Pickeringii is frequent from Lake Tahoe to Sierra Valley. 



485. Chamisal, Chamiso, Adenostoma fasciculatum One of the most common 



Greasewood evergreen shrubs of the 



higher Coast ranges. 

 Leaves thick, small, num- 

 erous and rigid and some- 

 what resinous. Flowers 

 small, w r hite and in pyra- 

 midal terminal clusters. 

 One of the many shrubs 

 called greasewood. Often 

 in dense thickets on dry 

 hills of foothills. Sierras 

 also. 



Fragrant shrub. Southern 

 California. Medicinal. 



A small annual 1 to 3 inches 

 high with palmate lobed 

 leaves and minute green- 

 ish flowers. Hills and 

 plains ; common ; probably 

 introduced. 



487. Agrimony Agrimonia gyrosepala 



A tall glandular, hairy plant. Leaves of five to seven coarsely-toothed thin 

 pinnate leaflets with additional, much smaller ones between them. Flowers yellow. 

 Fruiting body with a ring of conspicuous erect and reflexed spreading hooked 

 bristles. Thought to be medicinal. Borders of woods in the mountains, middle and 

 northern California. 



488. Acaena trifida Perennial herb often creep- 



ing and woody at the base. 

 Odd pinnate leaflets. No 

 petals. Inflorescence a 

 crowded globose spike, 

 later appearing as clusters 

 of bristly achenes which 

 have 2 to 4 prominent 

 stout prickles and many 

 shorter ones at their base. 

 Drv hills, Coast ranges. 



Perennial, glabrous leaves, 

 pinnate, leaflets petioled ; 

 flowers deep purple in ob- 

 long spikes; fruits small. 

 Northern California. Of 

 forage value. 



Sacramento valley and mea- 

 dows near Truckee. 



Hip or fruit globose, calyx- 

 lobes pubescent. Through- 

 out California. 



489. Perennial Burnet 



490. Annual Burnet 



Poterium officinale 



Poterium annuum 



491. California Wild Rose Rosa Calif ornica and 



vars. 



