Common Name: HYDRANGEA FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb to small tree or vine. Stem: < 3 m, generally erect; bark generally peeling as thin sheets or narrow strips. Leaf: generally simple, opposite, deciduous or not, +- hairy; stipules 0; blade +- round to narrowly elliptic, entire or toothed. Inflorescence: cyme, raceme, panicle, or flower 1, terminal or axillary, generally bracted. Flower: bisexual, radial, flowers on inflorescence margins occasionally sterile and enlarged; sepals 4--10, free or fused at base, spreading or erect; petals 4--7, free, +- round to narrowly elliptic; stamens 8--12 in 2 whorls or many and clustered, filament base linear or wide and flat; pistil 1, ovary superior to inferior, chambers 2--8, ovules 1--2 or many per chamber, placentas axile or parietal, styles 1--8, free or fused at base. Fruit: capsule, loculicidal or septicidal; styles persistent or not. Seed: generally many, small to minute, oblong to fusiform, winged or not. Genera In Family: 18 genera, +- 250 species: generally temperate, subtropical northern hemisphere; some cultivated for ornament (Carpenteria, Hydrangea, Philadelphus). Note: Philadelphaceae in TJM (1993). eFlora Treatment Author: Robert E. Preston & Charles F. Quibell Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: CLIFFBUSH Habit: Shrub < 2 m; herbage generally densely hairy. Stem: bark gray to +- red-brown, peeling as narrow strips. Leaf: deciduous, widely ovate to +- round, pinnately veined, margin toothed, sparsely hairy to +- glabrous above, canescent below. Inflorescence: terminal, flowers 1 or in cymes. Flower: sepals 4 or 5, lanceolate to narrowly ovate; petals 4 or 5, obovate or oblanceolate; stamens [8]10, alternating long and short, filament base wide and flat; chambers 3--5, 1 in fruit, placentas parietal, ovules many, styles 3--5, free, stigma terminal. Fruit: conic to ovoid, septicidal, styles persistent, spreading in fruit. Seed: many, with net-like ridges. Etymology: (Edwin P. James, naturalist, 1797--1861) Reference: Holmgren & Holmgren 1989 Brittonia 41:335--350
Jamesia americana Torr. & A. Gray var. rosea Purpus ex C.K. Schneid.
NATIVE Habit: Shrub < 1 m. Stem: bark generally gray. Leaf: petiole 2--6 mm; blade 1.5--4 cm, 1--2 cm wide. Inflorescence: terminal cyme; flowers (1)3--11. Flower: 1.2--1.5 cm wide, +- fragrant; sepals 5, 3--4 mm, gray-strigose; petals 5, 5--8 mm, elliptic to obovate, generally pink; stamens 10; ovary 1/2-inferior, styles > sepals. Fruit: 1--1.3 cm, conic. Seed: fusiform, brown. Ecology: Rocky slopes, cliffs; Elevation: 2070--3700 m. Bioregional Distribution: c&s SNH, W&I, n DMtns (Panamint Range, Grapevine Mtns); Distribution Outside California: western Nevada (Sheep Range, Spring Mountains). Flowering Time: Jul--Aug Note: Other varieties in GB outside California, Rocky Mountains. Unabridged Synonyms: Edwinia californica Small; Jamesia americana subsp. californica (Small) E. Murray; Jamesia americana var. californica (Small) Jeps.; Jamesia californica Fedde. Jepson eFlora Author: Robert E. Preston & Charles F. Quibell Reference: Holmgren & Holmgren 1989 Brittonia 41:335--350 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Jamesia Next taxon: Philadelphus
Botanical illustration including Jamesia americana var. rosea
Citation for this treatment: Robert E. Preston & Charles F. Quibell 2012, Jamesia americana var. rosea, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=60290, accessed on April 19, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 19, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Jamesia americana var. rosea:
c&s SNH, W&I, n DMtns (Panamint Range, Grapevine Mtns)
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