WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



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515. Dense Alum Root Heuchera pilosissima 



516. Interior Alum Root Heuchera cylindrica 



516a. Golden Water 

 Carpet 



517. Grass of Parnassus 



Close clustered flowers. 

 Coast region. San Fran- 

 cisco north. 



Probably in northeastern 



( 'alifornia. 

 Woods, wet places, trailing. 

 Humholdt Countv. 



Chrysosplenium 



glechomaefolium 



Parnassia palustria 

 and var. 



Unlike any of the other members of the family and certainly has no resem- 

 blance to a grass. The name comes to us from Europe, where it is frequent in 

 spongy bogs. Name probably from Mount Parnassus. 



It has short bulb-like root-stocks from which arise long-stalked leaves shaped 

 like those of most violets. The flow T ers are white or cream colored, beautifully 

 veined, and occur singly. The corolla has a peculiar aspect due to one of the series 

 of stamens being sterile and forming fringed fan-shaped scales. 



Rare in the Bay region, but more common in wet cool places in the Sierras. 

 Lake Tahoe region. 



Parnassia fimbriata 



518. 



519. 



Mock Orange or 

 Syringa 



Philadelphia 



520. Carpenter's Shrub 



Similar, but petals fringed 

 on the margins at or near 

 the base. Cold bogs. Mt. 

 Shasta and elsewhere in 

 the Sierras. 



Relatives of the well-known 

 cultivated mock orange. 

 P. Lewisii var Calif orni- 

 ciis, Sierras; P. Gordoni- 

 anus, north Coast ranges. 



Carpenteria Californica 



A Californian shrub of rare beauty and quite local in its distribution, occurring 

 in the Sierras from the head waters of the San Joaquin well down into the valley. 

 It resembles the mock orange, but the shrub is more erect and has dense clusters 

 of very large white blossoms terminating the branchlets. In cultivation, but should 

 be more extensively grown. 



Named by Torrey in honor of Professor Carpenter of Louisiana. 



521, 



Whipplea modesta 



A low shrub with trailing 

 branchlets and clusters of 

 4 to 9 flow r ers, at first 

 white, later turning green- 

 ish. Coast ranges among 

 shrubbery of the redwood 

 region. Named for Lieu- 

 tenant A. W. Whipple. 



522. 



Ribes 



esemblance to the cultivated 

 greenish or red. Some are 



Currants, 



Gooseberries 



Members of this genus are recognized by their 

 species. The flowers may be yellow, pink, purplish 

 fragrant, while others are ill-smelling. The berries of many are insipid and 

 perhaps even deleterious, while others are sweet, juicy and very palatable. 



There are about twenty species in the State, ranging from the Coast hills to 

 the higher mountain peaks. 



In the Coast region some are eagerly sought after in early spring because of 

 their floral beauty. Here again we should be merciful and not gather them by 

 the armful or load up the automobile. 



Space will not permit of a treatment of the species, and one should consult 

 the local floras. 



STONECROP FAMILY CRASSULACEAE 



Succulent or fleshy plants typified by the popular Live-for-Evcr or Hen-and- 

 Chickens of the gardens. Most of them on rocks or in cold, boggy meadow <. 



