Rupertia rigida is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Parish's California tea,[1] or Parish's rupertia.
| Rupertia rigida | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Rupertia |
| Species: | R. rigida
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| Binomial name | |
| Rupertia rigida (Parish) J.W.Grimes
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| Synonyms | |
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Psoralea rigida | |
It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it is an uncommon member of the local mountain flora, growing in chaparral, woodland, and forest habitat types.
Description edit
It is a bushy perennial herb producing a hairy, woody stem from a thick, purplish caudex, approaching 75 centimeters in maximum height with slender, leafy branches. The leaves are each made up of three hairy, glandular, lance-shaped leaflets up to 6 or 7 centimeters long.
The inflorescence is a clustered raceme of several whitish or yellowish pealike flowers. Each flower has a tubular calyx of sepals and a corolla spreading to about 1.5 centimeters in width.
The fruit is a hairy, gland-speckled, brownish legume around a centimeter long.
References edit
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Rupertia rigida". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
External links edit
(Parish) J.W.Grimes
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