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Sarcodes sanguinea


Higher Taxonomy
Family: EricaceaeView DescriptionDichotomous Key
Common Name: HEATH FAMILY
Habit: Perennial herb, shrub, tree. Stem: bark often peeling distinctively. Leaf: simple or 0, generally cauline, alternate, opposite (whorled), evergreen or deciduous, often leathery, petioled or not; stipules 0. Inflorescence: raceme, panicle, cyme, or flowers 1, terminal or axillary, generally bracted; pedicel often with 2 bractlets. Flower: generally bisexual, generally radial, bell-shaped, cylindric, or urn-shaped; sepals generally (0)4--5, generally free; petals generally (0)4--5, free or fused; stamens (2--5)8--10, free, filaments rarely appendaged, anthers dehiscing by pores or slits, awns 0 or 2(4), seemingly abaxial, reduced or elongate, generally curved; nectary generally present at ovary base, generally disk-like; ovary superior or inferior, chambers generally 1--5, placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1--many per chamber, style 1, stigma head- to funnel-like or lobed. Fruit: capsule, drupe, berry. Seed: generally many, winged or not.
Genera In Family: +- 100 genera, 3000 species: generally worldwide except deserts; some cultivated, especially Arbutus, Arctostaphylos, Rhododendron, Vaccinium. Note: Monophyletic only if Empetraceae included, as treated here. Ledum included in Rhododendron. Non-green plants obtain nutrition from green plants through fungal intermediates.
eFlora Treatment Author: Gary D. Wallace, except as noted
Scientific Editor: Gary D. Wallace, Thomas J. Rosatti, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Genus: SarcodesView Description 


Common Name: SNOW PLANT

Etymology: (Greek: flesh-like, from red inflorescence)
eFlora Treatment Author: Gary D. Wallace
Sarcodes sanguinea Torr.
NATIVE
Habit: Perennial herb, non-green, +- red, fleshy, glandular-hairy; roots thick, brittle. Stem: 0. Leaf: 0. Inflorescence: raceme, generally 1.5--3 dm, stout, bright red to orange-red, emerging from ground erect, persistent after seed dispersal; axis generally > 1 cm just below lowest flower; bracts < 8 cm, margins long-ciliate; bractlets 0. Flower: sepals 5, free; corolla urn-shaped, petals 5, +- 3/4 fused, 12--18 mm, red; stamens 10, anthers < 4 mm, dehiscing by short separate slits, unawned; nectaries +- visible at ovary base; ovary superior, chambers 5, placentas axile, style < 8 mm, stigma 2--3 mm wide, head-like. Fruit: capsule, < 2.5 cm wide, indehiscent, brittle. Seed: many per chamber, < 1 mm wide, ovate, unwinged. Chromosomes: 2n=64.
Ecology: Conifer or mixed forest; Elevation: 700--3100 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, NCoRO, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, SCoRO, TR, e PR; Distribution Outside California: southwestern Oregon, Nevada, northern Baja California. Flowering Time: May--Jul
Jepson eFlora Author: Gary D. Wallace
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Citation for this treatment: Gary D. Wallace 2012, Sarcodes sanguinea, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=43234, accessed on December 03, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.

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Geographic subdivisions for Sarcodes sanguinea:
KR, NCoRO, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, SCoRO, TR, e PR
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