Rupertia hallii

Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Genus:
Rupertia
Species:
R. hallii
Binomial name
Rupertia hallii
(Rydb.) J.W. Grimes
Synonyms

Hoita hallii
Psoralea hallii

Rupertia hallii is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Hall's California tea,[2] or Hall's rupertia. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from a small section of the northern Sierra Nevada foothills on the border between Butte and Tehama Counties.[3] It is a perennial herb approaching a meter in height with slender, leafy branches. The leaves are each made up of three lance-shaped or oval, pointed leaflets measuring up to 9 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a clustered raceme of several whitish or yellowish pealike flowers. Each flower has a tubular calyx of sepals and a corolla spreading to about a centimeter in width. The fruit is a hairy, gland-speckled legume around a centimeter long.

References

  1. ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
  2. ↑ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Rupertia hallii". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. ↑ California Native Plant Society Rare Plant Profile


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