Prosartes hookeri

Disporum hookeri var. hookeri :
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

Disporum parvifolium (S. Watson) Britton:
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

Disporum hookeri var. trachyandrum (Torr.) Q. Jones:
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

Disporum hookeri var. oreganum (S. Watson) Q. Jones:
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

Disporum hookeri (Torr.) G. Nicholson:
United States (North America)

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Alta., B.C.; Calif., Idaho, Mich., Mont., Oreg., Wash.

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Canada

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Plants 3–10 dm, roughly pubescent. Stems sparingly branched. Leaves 3–9(–14) × 1.5–5 cm; blade ovate to lanceolate, rounded to obliquely subcordate, adaxial surface glabrate or sparsely pubescent, abaxial surface scabrous or puberulent especially on veins, margins minutely pubescent to scabrous, hairs pointed sharply forward, apex long-acuminate to acute. Flowers 2–3(–4); perianth turbinate, narrowed basally; tepals spreading, dull or creamy white to greenish white, oblanceolate, 8–18 mm, apex short-acuminate; stamens included or exserted, 8–15 mm; filaments filiform, 6–15 mm; anthers 3–5 mm, glabrous or minutely sharp-bristled; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, ovules 2 per locule, pendulous; styles glabrous or basal 1/2 pubescent; stigma not lobed or rarely weakly 3-lobed. Berries bright red, 4 (–6)-seeded, ovoid to obovoid, beaked with persistent style bases, 8–16 mm. Seeds 5–6 mm. 2n = 18.

Disporum hookeri (Torrey) G. Nicholson; D. hookeri var. oblongifolium (S. Watson) Britton; D. hookeri var. oreganum (S. Watson) Q. Jones; D. hookeri var. trachyandrum (Torrey) Q. Jones; D. oreganum (S. Watson) W. T. Miller; D. parvifolium (S. Watson) Britton; D. trachyandrum (Torrey) Britton; Prosartes oregana S. Watson; P. parvifolia S. Watson

Damp, shady forests and thickets; 100--2000m.

Flowering early spring--mid summer.

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 6
Species With Barcodes: 1

Rounded Global Status Rank: T4 - Apparently Secure

Reasons: Prosartes hookeri var. trachyandra is in California (below 5000 feet) in the Sierra Nevada (Tulare County northward) and North Coast Ranges to southwestern Oregon (Douglas County), occurring in shady woodlands. It can be locally occasional to common (e.g., Oswald and Ahart 1994; Ferlatte 1974).

Rounded Global Status Rank: T2 - Imperiled

Reasons: Prosartes hookeri var. parvifolia (=Prosartes parvifolia) has been reported to occur in southwestern Oregon and northern California (Siskiyou Mountains).

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N4 - Apparently Secure

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N2 - Imperiled

Canada

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure