Common Name: SILK TASSEL FAMILY Habit: Shrub, small tree; dioecious. Leaf: simple, opposite, evergreen, petioled; blade +- leathery, flat to concave-convex, margin entire, flat, rolled under, or strongly wavy. Inflorescence: catkin-like, pendent; flowers small, in axils of opposite, 4-ranked, basally fused bracts. Staminate Flower: (1)3(4) per bract, pedicelled; perianth parts 4, generally fused at tips; stamens 4, alternate perianth parts, filaments free, anthers 2-chambered. Pistillate Flower: 1--3 per bract; pedicel +- 0 or short; perianth 0 or vestigial with 2 small appendages; ovary inferior, chamber 1, styles 2(3). Fruit: berry, spheric to ovoid, green, fleshy, turning dark blue, black, or white-gray, dry, brittle, not or irregularly dehiscent. Seed: generally 2. Genera In Family: 1 genus, 14 species: western United States, Central America, Caribbean; some cultivated. eFlora Treatment Author: Thomas F. Daniel Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Etymology: (N. Garry, 1st secretary of Hudson's Bay Co., explorer of Pacific Northwest with David Douglas, 1782--1856) Note: Intergradation among California species raises doubt about taxonomic status.
Garrya fremontii Torr.
NATIVE Habit: Shrub < 3 m. Leaf: 21--120 mm, 11--70 mm wide, 1.3--2.4 × longer than wide, generally flat, ovate- to obovate-elliptic; margin flat; abaxial hairs 0 (or sparse on young leaves), straight to +- wavy, appressed toward leaf tip. Fruit: hairs 0 or near tip sparse. Ecology: Chaparral, foothill woodland, montane forest; Elevation: 300--2300 m. Bioregional Distribution: NW, CaR, n&s SNF, n&c SNH, ScV, SnFrB, PR, Wrn; Distribution Outside California: to Washington, western Nevada. Flowering Time: Jan--Apr Jepson eFlora Author: Thomas F. Daniel Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Garrya flavescens Next taxon: Garrya veatchii
Citation for this treatment: Thomas F. Daniel 2012, Garrya fremontii, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=26464, accessed on January 23, 2025.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on January 23, 2025.
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