 Robert F. Hoover |
Species
Monardella leucocephala var. GrayOriginal Distribution
US, California, Merced and Stanislaus County
Habitat
Growing in sandy soils in the valley and food hill grasslands, between 50-100 m altitude
Extinction Data
IUCN = N/a
Description
Stems 15-20n cm, ash gray, hairy. Leaves lanceolate or oblong, hairy; veins obscure. Inflorescences head 10-15 mm wide, bracts ovate to obovate , short acuminate , white scarious , cross-veined few. Flower ; calyx stiff-hairy , lobes white tips recurved , awl-like, corolla 5-5.5 mm, white, tube barely exserted ; stamens included upper two sessileNumber of Specimens at Kew
6
Specimen Type (Y/N)
N
Kew Herbcat Barcode Number
K000518012
Collector
Robert F. Hoover
Collector Number
3637
Date Collected
10th July 1938
Information Sources
Endangered and threatened plants of the united states. Smithsonian institution and World Wildlife fund. pp 67Hickman, J.C. (1993) The Jepson manual. University of California Press. Berkeley. Pp. 720.Smith, J.P. & Berg, K. (1988). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento. Pp. 83.Walter, K.S. and Gillett, H.J. (eds) (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre IUCN – The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK