Adenostoma sparsifolium Torr.

Adenostoma sparsifolium Torr. in Emory, Notes Mil
Rec. 140. 1848.
A shrub or tree 1-10 m. high; bark of the twigs yellowish-green, glabrous, sparingly resinous-granuliferous, striate, that of the older branches and stems reddish and peeling off; leaves alternate, filiform, 5-10 mm. long, glabrous, granuliferous; panicles loose, 2-7 cm. long, pyramidal; hypanthium turbinate-campanulate, 1 mm. long, puberulent; bracts 10-striate, broadly lanceolate, scarious-margined ; sepals rounded-ovate, obtuse, scarious-margined; petals orbicular or round-oval, 1.5 mm. long, white or slightly pinkish; stamens about 10, inserted on the outside of the lobed disk; filaments filiform, much shorter than the petals; style clavate.
Type locality: Warner's Pass, California. Distribution: Southern California and Lower California.