Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Leptasea vespertina Small, sp. nov
Leaves of the caudices 4-11 mm. long, parchment-like, crowded, more or less spreading, the blades oblong to oblong-cuneate, spine-tipped, ciliate; flower-stalks 5.5-14 cm. tall, finely glandular-pubescent, bearing few leaves, which are smaller than those of the caudices ; sepals ovate, 2-3 mm. long, obtuse, often glandularciliate ; petals white and often yellowspotted, oval to oval-ovate, 4.5-5.5 mm. long, clawless; filaments subulate; follicles 7-10 mm. long.
Type collected on Baldy Peak, Chehalis County, Washington, July 24, 1897, by Frank H. ^^Distribution : Alaska and the adjacent islands, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
