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Rupertia hallii

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Rupertia hallii

Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Rupertia
Species:
R. hallii
Binomial name
Rupertia hallii
Synonyms

Hoita hallii
Psoralea hallii

Rupertia hallii is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Hall's California tea,[2] or Hall's rupertia. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from a small section of the northern Sierra Nevada foothills on the border between Butte and Tehama Counties.[3] It is a perennial herb approaching a meter in height with slender, leafy branches. The leaves are each made up of three lance-shaped or oval, pointed leaflets measuring up to 9 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 a centimeter in width. The fruit is a hairy, gland-speckled legume around a centimeter long.

References

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  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
  2. ^ NRCS. "Rupertia hallii". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. ^ "California Native Plant Society Rare Plant Profile". Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
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