WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



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WATER STARWORT FAMILY 



1600. Water Fennel Callitriche palnstris 



1601. Water Fennel 



Callitriche marginata 



CALLITRICHACEAE 



Aquatic, cold pools or slow 

 streamlets. Napa Valley, 

 Marin County, Gilroy. 



Napa Valley southward to 

 the San Joaquin Valley 

 and southern California. 



LIZARD-TAIL FAMILY SAURURACEAE 



1602. Yerba Mansa Anemopsis calif ornica 



Herbs with aromatic rootstock and somewhat spicy leaves. Stems hollow, 

 flowers in conical spike. The lower Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, south 

 Coast Ranges. An infusion of the root is used by Spanish-Californians both as a 

 liniment for skin troubles and as a tea for blood disorders. 



HORNWORT FAMILY CERATOPHYLLACEAE 



1603. Hornwort Ceratophyllum demersum 



Aquatic, submerged, fragile herbs, in ponds and lakes, 

 cisco, and northward. 



Santa Cruz, San Fran- 



BIRCH FAMILY BETULACEAE 



1604. Hazelnut 



Corvlus rostrata 



1605. Mountain Birch Betula fontinalis 



1606. White Alder 



Alnus rhombifolia 



1607. Red Alder; Oregon Alnus oregana 

 Alder 



Alnus oregana 

 var. tenuifolia 



Hill country, Coast Ranges 

 and Sierra Nevada. 

 Leaves roundish. 



Sierra Nevada. Common on 

 all mountain streams at 

 about 4,500 to 9,000 feet. 

 Commonly a slender- 

 stemmed, graceful, shrub- 

 like tree. 



Foliage pale-green. Western 

 slopes of Sierra Nevada, 

 San Bernardino, San Ja- 

 cinto and Cuyarnaca 

 mountains. Little known 

 of the range limits. 



Coast Ranges to Santa Inez 

 mountains near Santa 

 Barbara. Deep, cool can- 

 yons or moist flats along 

 coast. 



Forming shrubby thickets. 

 Sierra Nevada, 6,000 to 

 7,000 feet. 



SWEET-GALE FAMILY 



1608. Wax Myrtle Myrica California 



1609. Sweet Bay 



Myrica Hartwegii var. 



MYRICACEAE 



Small evergreen trees or 

 shrub. Leaves dark green, 

 glossy. Crushed leaves ex- 

 hale aromatic odor. 



A deciduous shrub of the 

 Sierra Nevada. 



