Lythrum
californicum #
Herbaceous
or woody, mostly with opposite lvs., no stipules.
Fls. perfect, solitary or clustered, regular, mostly minute in ours.
Fl.-tube persistent, enclosing but free from the 1-4 loculed ovary, with
4-6 minute sepals and sometimes accessory teeth in the sinuses.
Petals when present as many as the primary calyx-teeth, inserted with the
4-17 stamens on the fl. tube. Anthers versatile, longitudinally dehiscent. Style
1; stigma 2-lobed; ovules many or few, anatropous.
Caps. 1-several-celled, variously dehiscent or indehiscent.
Seeds without endosperm. (Munz,
Flora So. Calif. 560).
Upper
Newport Bay species within the family
Lythrum
hyssopifolium