The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to CISTUS

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

  1. Sepals 3; flowers solitary
 C. ladanifer
  1' Sepals 5; flowers generally in panicle-like cymes
 
    2. Style thread-like, ± = stamens; petals rose to purple
 C. creticus
    2' Style 0; petals white
 
      3. Leaf sessile, linear to linear-lanceolate, generally with 3 main veins from base; pedicel < 1 cm
 C. monspeliensis
      3' Leaf petioled, blade ovate to elliptic, generally with 1 main vein from base; pedicel generally > 1 cm
 C. salviifolius

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