Comprehensive Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por North American Flora
Limnanthes alba Hartw.; Benth. PI. Hartw. 301. 1848
Floerkea alba Greene, Fl. Fran. 100. 1891.
Annual ; stems copiously branched at the base, erect or ascending, 1-3 dm. high, glabrous; leaves 3-10 cm. long, sparingly long-villous, once to twice pinnately dissected, with oblong or lanceolate divisions ; peduncles 2-10 cm. long ; sepals ovate, acuminate, 6
8 mm. long, villous with long white hairs; petals white, broadly obovate-cuneate, truncate or slightly emarginate, with a very broad notch, 10-15 mm. long; carpels obovoid, 4 mm. long, with low, ridged tubercles.
Type locality : Wet places in the Sacramento Valley, California.
Distribution : Northern and central California.
- citação bibliográfica
- 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
