The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Key to ASARUM

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Leaf blade marbled white along major veins; rhizomes deep, ± vertical, plants clumped; sterile anther tips > pollen sacs
 
    2. Inner surface of calyx tube white with several red stripes that are covered by bands of white hairs; leaf margin hairs curved toward leaf tip; anther tips pale
A. hartwegii
    2' Inner surface of calyx tube dark red-maroon with scattered dark hairs; leaf margin hairs ± perpendicular-spreading; anther tips dark
A. marmoratum
  1' Leaf blade uniformly green; rhizomes near soil surface, horizontal, plant generally spreading; sterile anther tips < pollen sacs
 
    3. Calyx lobes long-tapered, spreading in flower
A. caudatum
    3' Calyx lobes obtuse to acute or abruptly soft-pointed, strongly reflexed in flower
A. lemmonii


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