Observations by sarahashlock

Many individuals growing in open sunny area. Leaves hairy and pinnately lobed/dissected. Flowers are pink with dark veins and corolla has 4 petals. Fruit is a silique. Long, thick taproot present. Herbaceous.

Abundant at collection site. Base of stems reddish pink. Leaves either basal and heart shaped or cauline and fused around stem. Fused leaf subtends inflorescence. Inflorescence a cluster of small white flowers with 5 petals. Herbaceous.

Many individuals every few feet in grassy field. Leaves basal and lanceolate with parallel veins. Inflorescence a short, dense spike with exserted stamens giving a cream colored appearance. Herbaceous.

Many individuals at collection site and across campus. Leaves palmately compound, purple spotted, growing in loose basal rosette. Flowers yellow appearing to be 5 separate petals but upon inspection a 5-lobed tube.

Abundant on lawn. Low growing perennial roughly 7cm tall. Most individuals flowering with more buds on the way. Leaves in basal rosette, margins entire to sparsely toothed. Inflorescence composite of ray and disk flowers, prominent white ray corolla with yellow stamen and stigma.

Abundant at collection site. Many individuals with buds but only one flowering specimen at site. Herb roughly 1.5 ft tall including flower stalk. Leaves alternate, pubescent, and clustered at base. Flowers arranged in panicle, corolla a blue salverform tube with prominent yellow stamen.

Description: Abundant at collection site. Variable size from 6ft shrub to 50ft+ tree. Aromatic smell. Leaves alternate, entire, shiny and oblong. Small flowers arranged in umbel shape, whitish green perianth with yellow stamen. Brown hard fruit present. Bark light gray/tan. Growing near redwoods and oaks. Few if any surrounding understory plants. #117