View source for Sisyrinchium hitchcockii

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|accepted_name=Sisyrinchium hitchcockii
|accepted_authority=Douglass M. Henderson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=28: 170, fig. 4. 1976
|year=1976
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Sisyrinchium;Sisyrinchium hitchcockii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Iridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sisyrinchium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sisyrinchium hitchcockii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 355, 365
|treatment_page=page 368
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, green to dark olive when dry, to 5 dm, not glaucous; rhizomes elongate. <b>Stems</b> mostly simple, 2.5–4 mm wide, glabrous, margins usually entire, similar in color and texture to stem body. <b>Leaf</b> blades glabrous, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. <b>Inflorescences</b> borne singly; spathes green, glabrous, keels entire or denticulate; outer 23–37 mm, 6–17 mm longer than inner, tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 5–6 mm; inner with keel evenly curved, hyaline margins 0.1–0.2 mm wide, apex obtuse or truncate, ending 0.1–0.3 mm proximal to green apex. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals purple to dark reddish purple, rarely bluish violet, bases darker purple; outer tepals 15–19 mm, apex truncate or emarginate, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, stipitate-glandular basally; ovary similar in color to foliage. <b>Capsules</b> beige to light brown, globose, 6–7 mm; pedicel ascending. <b>Seeds</b> globose to obconic, lacking obvious depression, 1.9–2.5 mm, rugulose. <b>2n</b> = 64.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Grassy areas, openings in woods, mostly where somewhat dry later in season
|elevation=200–1000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Sisyrinchium hitchcockii</i> is endemic to the southern Willamette Valley and the Roseburg area of Douglas County, Oregon, and to Cape Ridge, Humboldt County, California. It often occurs in mixed populations with <i>S. bellum</i>. The lack of yellow tepal bases and the extensive rhizomes are the most distinctive features.</p>
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name=Sisyrinchium hitchcockii
|author=
|authority=Douglass M. Henderson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Grassy areas, openings in woods, mostly where somewhat dry later in season
|elevation=200–1000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1976
|special status=
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|genus=Sisyrinchium
|species=Sisyrinchium hitchcockii
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