Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Heuchera caespitosa Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 6: 426. 1896
Acaulescent, cespitose ; flowering branches 1-2 dm. high, glandular-puberulent above; petioles 2-3 cm. long, sparingly puberulent ; leaf-blades rounded-cordate, 1-1.5 cm. wide, minutely puberulent above, hirsutulous and glandular-puberulent beneath, 5-lobed ; lobes short, rounded-ovate with 3-5 ovate ciliate and bristle-pointed teeth ; hypanthium pinkish, glandular-puberulent and white-hairy, cylindro-funnelform, together with the sepals about 6 mm. long ; sepals oblong, obtuse, with green tips, the upper much longer ; petals spatulate, half longer than the sepals.
Type locality : San Emidia canon, Kern County, California. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
