Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Parnassia cirrata Piper, Erythea 7 : 128. 1899
Parnassia fimbriata A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1 : 202, in part. 1876. Not P. fimbriata Konig.
Rootstock short, ascending. Petioles of the basal leaves 2-5 cm. long ; blades ovate or lance-ovate, obtuse or acute, tapering at the base, 1-2 cm. long ; scape 2-4 dm. high ; bract 5-10 mm. long, lance-ovate to lance-linear^ sepals oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse, about 7 mm. long ; petals oblong-obovate, 1 cm. long, fimbriate below with long hairs ; staminodial scales with about 12 slender filiform filaments ; capsule ovoid, 1 cm. long, 4-valved.
Type locality : Mt. San Bernardino, Cahfornia.
Distribution : In wet places in the mountains from the San Bernardino Mountains to the Upper Sacramento. *
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
