Purshia stansburiana

Family: Rosaceae
Common Name: Stansbury cliffrose
Symbol: PUST
Description: PUST leaves have 5 lobes, PUTRleaves only have 3. PUST leaves are also glandular above, and PUTR leaves are not. Common Name: Stansbury cliffrose Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Tree General: Evergreen shrub or small tree, 0.6-3.5 m (2-11 ft) tall; branches numerous; twigs reddish brown, glandular, resinous. Bark reddish brown or gray, shreddy. Leaves: Alternate, simple, wedge- to fan-shaped, 6-15 mm long, 5- 7 lobed, thick, leathery, resinous, dark green and glandular above, white-tomentose below, margins rolled under; blades sessile or short-petiolate. Flowers: Solitary, arising at the ends of lateral branches; pedicels, hypanthium and sepals glandular-stalked; pedicels 3-8 mm long; hypanthium narrowly obconic to narrowly campanulate, 5-6 mm long; sepals 5, ovate, 3.7-5 mm long; petals 5, 7-14 mm long, white, cream, or yellow; fragrant. Fruits: Achenes 4-7, 5-7 mm long, with a feathery, persistent style, 2-6 cm long, whitish. Ecology: Found on dry, rocky slopes, plateaus in grasslands, sagebrush and pi-on-juniper woodlands, ponderosa pine forests from 3,000-8,000 ft (914-2438 m), flowers April-September.