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Sierra Nevada flower
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, Des Higgins writes On Apr 25, 2:28 pm, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote: In message , Nick Maclaren writes Like a small gorse, except blue. No seeds at this time of year, unfortunately :-( But what is it? It looked an excellent plant for a dry, sunny bank? Obviously cold-hardy, deer resistant, yada yada .... Regards, Nick Maclaren. Going to the Jepson Flora Project and looking for blue-flowered legumes comes up with Psorothamnus (several species thereof). The other blue flowered legumes in California (e.g. several lupins and vetches) aren't spinous (fide Google, but Google was being obviously reluctant to provide complete search results - e.g. Psorothamnus blue was producing more hits for Psorothamnus than Fabaceae blue, even though they should have produced the same). But the range given doesn't include the Sierra Nevada, though some species occur in mountains of the Mohave Desert or Basin and Range Province. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/g...t.pl?3691,4186 http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PSORO -- Stewart Robert Hinsley California??? bugger; I assumed Sierra Nevada was in Spain; oh well; scratch Erinacea than :-) You may have assumed correctly. There's a Sierra Nevada in Spain, and a Sierra Nevada in California (also in Mexico and Chile, fide Wikipedia). I assumed the second, quite possibly incorrectly (being in correspondence about a plant from Baja at the moment may have biased my interpretation). The fact that the Jepson Flora Project is not producing a good match is a point in favour of your assumption. For Spanish plants see URL:http://www.rjb.csic.es/floraiberica/..._.php?familia= Leguminosae It's probably not quite as voluminous as the Californian flora, but it's still inconveniently large. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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