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Scutellaria bolanderi A.Gray
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Scutellaria bolanderi is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Sierra skullcap. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the Sierra Nevada and several of the mountain ranges to the south. It is a perennial herb producing an erect stem or cluster of stems 30 centimeters to one meter tall from a system of thin rhizomes. The stems are coated in short, spreading hairs which sometimes have resin glands. The oval or heart-shaped leaves have wavy edges and are oppositely arranged. The lowest leaves are borne on short petioles. Flowers emerge from the leaf axils. Each flower is held in a calyx of sepals with a large ridge or appendage on the upper part. The corolla is between 1 and 2 centimeters long and tubular in shape with a large upper and lower lip. The upper lip is folded into a beaklike protrusion and the lower has three wide lobes. The corolla is white or very pale blue with an area of blue mottling on the lower lip.
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United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
Global Range: CA (Sierra Nevada, Inner South Coast Ranges, Soutwestern CA, south Mojave Desert).
Isotype for Scutellaria bolanderi A. Gray
Catalog Number: US 322484
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): H. N. Bolander
Year Collected: 1866
Locality: Clark's meadow, Yosemite National Park., California, United States, North America
- Isotype: Gray, A. 1868. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 7: 387.
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Comments: Gravelly soils, streambanks, oak or pine woodland; 300-2000 m.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked
Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure
Reasons: Gravelly soils, streambanks, oak or pine woodland in southern CA.