Rupertia hallii

Rupertia hallii is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Hall's California tea,[1] 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.[2] 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.

Rupertia hallii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Genus:
Rupertia
Species:
R. hallii
Binomial name
Rupertia hallii
(Rydb.) J.W. Grimes
Synonyms

Hoita hallii
Psoralea hallii

References
  1. "Rupertia hallii". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  2. California Native Plant Society Rare Plant Profile
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