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Rupertia rigida
Rupertia rigida is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Parish's California tea,[1] or Parish's rupertia. It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it is an uncommon member of the local mountain flora, growing in chaparral, woodland, and forest habitat types. DescriptionIt is a bushy perennial herb producing a hairy, woody stem from a thick, purplish caudex, approaching 75 centimeters in maximum height with slender, leafy branches. The leaves are each made up of three hairy, glandular, lance-shaped leaflets up to 6 or 7 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 1.5 centimeters in width. The fruit is a hairy, gland-speckled, brownish legume around a centimeter long. References
External links(Parish) J.W.Grimes
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