Stems: erect, not rooting at nodes; twigs gray-brown, round, smooth, puberulent, rigid.
Leaves: evergreen, opposite, not clustered; stipules thickened, persistent; petioles 1--3 mm; blades elliptical, 1.0--2.0 x 0.6--1.3 cm, bases rounded,1-veined, margins +/- revolute, undulate, with 8--10 coarse, spiny teeth, tips rounded, abaxially microscopically white-canescent between veins, adaxially yellow-green, glabrous, troughed.
Inflorescences: axillary or terminal, umbel-like, 1.3--2.5 cm.
Flowers: hexamerous to octamerous, pale blue to lavender or white.
Fruits: globose or +/- oblong, 5--6 mm broad, rough, horns prominent, wrinkled; valves crested.
1. Shrub sprawling-erect to 0.6 m; flowers pale blue to lavender; fruit globose: b. C. jepsonii var. jepsonii.
Stems: Stems erect, not rooting at nodes; twigs gray-brown, round, smooth, puberulent, rigid.
Leaves: evergreen, opposite; stipules thickened, persistent; petioles 1--3 mm; blades elliptical, 1.0--2.0 x 0.6--1.3 cm, bases rounded,1-veined, margins +/- revolute, undulate, with 8--10 coarse, spine-like teeth, tips rounded, abaxially white-canescent between veins, adaxially yellow-green, glabrous, troughed.
Inflorescences: axillary or terminal, umbel-like, 1.3--2.5 cm.
Flowers: hexamerous to octamerous, white.
Fruits: +/- oblong, ca. 6 mm broad, horns prominent, wrinkled; valves crested.
Cytology: 2 n = 24 (M.A. Nobs, 1963)
Flowering: in spring.
Habitat: dry, brush-covered, rocky slopes, serpentine, inner coast range; below 600 m.
Range: Calif. [NCoRH, NCoRI] View Distribution Map.
Stems: erect, not rooting at nodes; twigs gray-brown, round, smooth, puberulent, rigid.
Leaves: evergreen, opposite; stipules thickened, persistent; petioles 1--3 mm; blades elliptical, 1.0--2.0 x 0.6--1.3 cm, bases rounded,1-veined, margins +/- revolute, undulate, with 8--10 coarse, spine-like teeth, tips rounded, abaxially white-canescent between veins, adaxially yellow-green, glabrous, troughed.
Inflorescences: axillary or terminal, umbel-like, 1.3--2.5 cm.
Flowers: Flowers pale blue to lavender.
Fruits: Fruits globose.
Cytology: 2 n = 24 (M.A. Nobs, 1963)
Flowering: in spring
Habitat: dry, brush-covered, rocky slopes, serpentine, outer coast range; below 600 m.
Range: Calif. [NCoR, SnFrB] View Distribution Map.
