Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cneoridium dumosum (Nutt.) Hook, f.; Baillon, Hist PI. 4: 498. 1873.
Pitavia dumosa Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 215. 1838.
A strong-scented, much-branched, glabrous shrub, 5-15 dm. tall ; leaves spatulatelinear or oblong-linear, 15-2S mm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, sessile, entire or obscurely crenulate, rather thick, rounded at the apex, pungent in taste; leaf-margin punctate; sepals narrowly ovate to broadly ovate or oval, 1 mm. long ; petals white, ovate to oval or obovate, 5-6 mm. long; fruit 5-6 mm. broad, glabrous, reddish-brown.
Type locality : San Diego. California.
Distribution: Southern California, Arizona (?), and northern Lower California.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
