Hesperolinon micranthum (A.Gray) Small

PLANTS OF CALIFORNIA
DISTRIBUTED BY THE
HERBARIUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY.
291. Linum micranthum Gray.
Loco Flat, east side of San Benito River, just below Merrill
Valley, San Benito County, in the upper Sonoran Zone, at 580 m.
altitude.
In stony soil in edges of thickets of Adenostema fasciculatum,
associated with Lotus gldber and Bromm rubens.
Petals white, tinged with pink, spatulate, obtuse, obscurely toothed
on each side near base, not appendaged. Stamens glabrous, the
filaments deltoid at very base, without appendages. Mature capsules
scarcely exceed the calyx.
Growing with these specimens was a single plant in which the
pedicels were mostly recurved, so as to bring the flowers into a
pendent position, but the pedicels were not abruptly bent as in
Z,. spergulinum.
Collected by H. M. Hall (no. 9917), May 2 915.
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