Canyon Mock Orange

Description

Small-shrub-with loose-bark-on the main stems. Among boulders along streams. Rare and needing protection. Leaves narrowly-ovate,-up to 1 3/8 inches long by 1/2 inch wide, with smooth margins and 3 prominent veins on the upper surface, the lower surface covered withappressed-hairs visible under a l0x hand lens. Flowers white, showy, numerous along the branchlets, opening in April and May.-Fruit-acapsule-shaped like a top, 3/l6 inch long by 3/16 inch wide with 4 remnants of the-flower-projecting from the midpoint between the tip and the base.