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(–70) mm, in dense cushions to loose mats, olivaceous, dark black-green to rusty-redbrown. Leaves broadly oblong-ovate, oblong-lanceolate, to narrowly ovatelanceolate

page 341, 342, 630, 637, 652. Plants small to large, ± glaucous, green to rusty brown. Stems with branches erect to arcuate, sometimes attenuate to flagellate

patches, green, yellow to grayish green or yellowbrown, sometimes olive with rusty-red tinge, often hoary when dry. Stems creeping, procumbent to ± erect, irregularly

Hypnum curvifolium 12 Alar cells more than 20, regions not excavate; plants rusty brown to golden brown or occasionally dark green, dull; stems densely branched

scales or long strips or broad plates. Twigs greenish, orangish, reddish, or rusty brown, or bronze, terete, slender or stout, pubescent and scaly or glabrous;

triangular scales (0.2–1 mm), inner of 30–45 off-white, stramineous, or tan to rusty brown, barbellate, apically clavate or attenuate bristles (3–11 mm). x =

paired axillary, globose, warty, rusty-pubescent syconia 1 cm in diameter. Vernacular names include Port Jackson fig, rusty fig, and littleleaf fig. None

margins entire, apex obtuse, occasionally somewhat acute; surfaces abaxially rusty or golden pubescent, often becoming glabrate and glaucous with age. Fruits:

reflexed, valvate, broadly ovate to semiorbiculate; petals 5, white becoming rusty brown, obovate-orbiculate or elliptic to ovate, base clawed; stamens 10 or

sporangia-bearing pinnae at apex. Sporangia greenish, turning red, then rusty brown. 2n =44. Phenology: Sporulation early spring–midsummer. Habitat: 0–2300

M. Fabijan Common names: Fool’s huckleberry mock or false azalea rusty-leaf or rusty or Pacific or smooth menziesia IllustratedEndemic Synonyms: Menziesia

mm, margins not ciliate, faces glabrous, or hairy and papillate (papillae rusty or yellowish, wartlike); pappi 0. Generated Map Legacy Map Calif. Subspecies

surfaces abaxially pale, glaucous, moderately pubescent when young with rusty brown, appressed hairs, glabrescent with age, adaxially green, lustrous.

on page 537. Mentioned on page 531, 534, 543, 549. Plants small to large, rusty green, golden green, yellow-green, or pale green. Stems 1–8+ cm, pale to

ovate to semiorbiculate, 0.5–0.9 mm; petals tardily falling, white, turning rusty, obovate-orbiculate, to 1–2 mm diam.; stamens (10–) 15, filaments 1–1.5 mm

and gradually deteriorating, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 10+ per locule, rusty brown, fusiform, sometimes caudate. x = 13. w, se North America, Mexico,

obovate, 1.8–4 (–5) × 1–2.5 cm; tunics brownish black, papery, apex with rusty, straight hairs adaxially. Leaves 2–3 (–4), widely spaced, more or less declinate

stout, erect. Capsule erect, immersed to emergent, light to dark-brown or rusty red, spherical to obovoid, urn becoming compressed basally and columella

Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants small to medium-sized, rusty brownish to yellowish (occasionally dark green). Stems 2–5 cm, yellow-green

ribbed, faces short-strigose; pappi persistent, of 20–35 stramineous to rusty brown, apically attenuate bristles in 2–3 series, outer either bristles grading

fragrant, 15-38 (-50) cm across; spathaceous bracts 2, outer bract abaxially rusty gray, inner bract glabrous; tepals creamy white, glandular, innermost whorl

perianth (3-) 4-merous; sepals elliptic or ovate, ca. 1 cm, abaxially sparsely rusty-hairy; outer petals ascending with spreading pale tips, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate

reddish-brown, pubescent to glabrous. Buds: apex acute; scales brown to rusty, slightly pubescent. Leaves: petiole ca. 2.5 mm, pubescent. Leaf-blade lanceolate

Flowers (hypanthium U-shaped in longisection); sepals erect, (sometimes rusty brown), elliptic to ovate, margins eciliate or sparsely glandular-ciliate

entire or 3-toothed; hypanthium broadly funnelform, 2.5–3.5 mm, exterior rusty lepidote-stellate and villose-pilose, interior densely hirsute; sepals 5

prominent, apex acute or rounded, abaxial surface densely white to gray, tan, or rusty, tomentose, adaxial glabrous or puberulent. Inflorescences predominantly

black, ridged and deeply furrowed. Twigs rusty brown, slender, densely scaly, often pubescent. Terminal buds rusty brown, ovoid, 4-9 mm, densely scaly; bud-scales

dull reddish-brown, rarely dull red or dull orange, distally dull red, deep rusty red, or yellow to pale-yellow, sometimes deep pink, dull rose, pale salmon

imparting rusty brown color, adaxially with peltate scales in spring. Staminate catkins pedunculate, to 6 cm, stalks with coarse hairs, rusty brown scales

Capsule when mature narrowly ovoid to nearly cylindric, 3–5 mm, dull brown to rusty-brown, upper face not strongly differentiated from lower face, slightly oblique

Volume 21. Treatment on page 343. Cypselae ± hairy and papillate (papillae rusty or yellowish, wartlike). 2n = 14. Phenology: Flowering Apr–May. Habitat:

4-7 mm, abaxially rusty-tomentose; outer petals oblong to ovate, 1-1.3cm, apex excurved, lingulate, surfaces abaxially minutely rusty-tomentose; inner petals

suborbiculate, 12-18 mm diam., broadly winged, samaras pubescent on body only, rusty-tomentose, margins glabrous. Seeds thickened, not inflated. 2n = 28. Phenology:

and petals fall. Berries persistent on tree until after seed germination, rusty or dark-brown, 3 cm; sepals spreading to reflexed. Seed with hypocotyl becoming

stamens exserted, 3–4 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light to rusty brown, 4–5 mm, glabrous. Generated Map Legacy Map Calif. Varieties 2 (2 in

page 308. Mentioned on page 260. Herbs, annual, monoecious, covered with rusty-colored, stellate, and whitish simple trichomes. Stems ascending, not jointed

on page 630, 632, 635. Plants small, in thick, dense mats, dark green to rusty brown. Stems to 3.5 (–5) cm, 0.8–1.5 mm thick when dry, poorly branched,

calyx, opening by 3–5 ascending to spreading teeth; carpophore 3–4 mm. Seeds rusty brown, broadly reniform, sides flat, 1.2–1.5 mm, margins coarsely papillate

America Association Plants usually fairly soft, olivaceous, brown or yellow, rusty orange to blackish brown, sometimes dirty olive yellow, golden to blackish

Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants large, golden to rusty green. Stems 3–15 cm, yellowish-brown, creeping to suberect, irregularly

yellowish; sepals broadly ovate, 0.6–1 mm; petals persistent, whitish, turning rusty brown, elliptic to ovate, 1.5–2.2 mm; stamens 10 (–12), filaments 1–1.5 mm

North America Association Rhizomes present. Cauline stems terete, often rusty spotted, 6–110 cm; nodal glands absent. Turions absent. Leaves both submersed

America Association Plants soft to slightly rigid, dull yellow-green with rusty mottling, less often dirty brownish yellow or uniformly dull green. Stems

conic, 7-10 mm, scales brown with ciliate margins. Leaves: petiole 3-10 mm, rusty-villous, flattened adaxially. Leaf-blade wavy or distinctly concave, oblong-lanceolate

fragrant, 35-40 (-50) cm across; spathaceous bracts 2, outer bract abaxially rusty gray, inner bract thinner, glabrous; tepals creamy white, glandular, innermost

cm; surfaces abaxially pale, glaucous, densely pubescent when young with rusty brown, erect, crisped hairs, glabrescent with age, adaxially green, lustrous

broadly linear, folded, sickle-shaped. Flowers erect; tepals clearly mottled rusty brown and yellow adaxially, greenish abaxially, obovate, 1.5–2.2 cm, apex

lance-elliptic, 5-8 × 1.5-2.5 cm; surfaces abaxially obscured by dense (silky), rusty brown, appressed hairs when young, appearing sooty with age, adaxially green

lobed, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface not glaucous, densely white to rusty tomentose, concealed (except sometimes veins) by hairs, adaxial surface floccose

lobed, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface not glaucous, densely white to rusty tomentose, concealed (except sometimes veins) by hairs, adaxial surface floccose

America Association Plants dark green in deeply shaded sites, orange-golden to rusty in exposed sites. Stems 3–10 cm, usually hooked at apices, branches 0.3–1

Fischer ex E. Meyer Linnaea 22:385. 1849. Janice Coffey Swab Common names: Rusty wood rush Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22. Rhizomes absent. Stolons to

Texas 1: 1020. 2007 ,. Luc Brouillet, Patrick E. Elvander† Common names: Rusty saxifrage Basionym: Saxifraga ferruginea Graham Edinburgh New Philos. J.

rhizome tips; petiole 5–15 (–21) cm, sparsely to densely villous, hairs rusty; leaflets 3, green, broadly obcordate, 10–30 (–40) mm, lobed 1/5–1/4 length

FNA Volume 28. Treatment on page 546. Mentioned on page 533. Plants large, rusty brown to golden brown or occasionally dark green, dull. Stems 2–8 cm, yellowish

471, 472. Plants 10–30 dm. Stems: thorns sparse to abundant; young twigs rusty-hairy (gray-hairy in 1 variation), glabrescent. Leaves: stipules 3–8 mm;

sphaerica 10 Inner tepals greenish yellow, white, pink to purplish, maroon, or rusty; flowers 6-35(-45) mm diam.; stems few branched or unbranched, firm, either

yellow-green, dull olive green, dirty yellow, or yellowbrown, with or without rusty mottling. Stems to 7 cm, leafy throughout or commonly denuded basally, irregularly

dull yellow-green, bright or dull green, dull olive green with or without rusty mottling, dirty brown, or rarely blackish green. Stems to 15 cm, usually

forming loose tufts or mats, dark or yellow to olive green or yellow, olive, rusty to blackish brown distally, brown, reddish or blackish brown proximally,

buds with subterminal free tips, spreading to erect; dry capsules usually rusty brown. Oenothera oakesiana 8 Inflorescences with erect apices; flower buds

conic, 2-8 mm, scales brown with ciliate margins. Leaves: petiole 3-14 mm, rusty-pubescent, adaxially flattened. Leaf-blade oblong, acuminate, usually flat

faces moderately to densely strigose; pappi 0 (ray) or (disc) stramineous to rusty brown, outer bristles 0.4–0.7 mm, inner 6–9 mm, longest weakly clavate. 2n

Altaica 1: 70. 1829. Peter W. Ball, Daniel E. Wujek Common names: Russett (Rusty) cotton-grass linaigrette de Chamisso Illustrated Synonyms: Eriophorum altaicum

geniculate, exceeding the lemmas by 3-6 mm; anthers 0.7-1.8 mm, yellow to rusty brown. Caryopses 1.5-2 mm. 2n = unknown. Generated Map Legacy Map Calif.

Mentioned on page 272. Plants soft, yellow or yellow-green, with or without rusty mottling distally, older extremities dirty or reddish-brown to reddish black

page 271, 278. Plants very soft, yellow to yellow-green with conspicuous rusty mottling. Stems to 5 cm, usually shorter, denuded basally, usually unbranched

Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 11: 173. 1813. Michael D. Windham Common names: Rusty cliff fern woodsie de l'île d'Elbe Illustrated Basionym: Acrostichum ilvense Linnaeus

glaucous, ± arachnoid or floccose, visible through hairs, hairs usually rusty, sometimes whitish, veins and vein-axils sometimes hirtellous, adaxial surface

or obovoid, to 3.5 mm, faces glabrous or hairy and papillate (papil-lae rusty or yellowish, wartlike) Lasthenia glabrata

has simple leaves, but it can be distinguished from that species by having rusty to brown, appressed (versus grayish white, erect) hairs on branchlets and

Branchlets and, sometimes, raceme axes are rusty-hairy; abaxial surfaces of leaf blades have scattered, rusty hairs. The trees are said to leaf out two

on page 364. Mentioned on page 363, 365. Twigs glabrous or hairy, hairs rusty brown or gray. Leaves: petiole (2–) 4–10 (–15) mm, glabrous or sparsely to

Mentioned on page 270, 271, 279, 281. Plants soft, yellow-green, sometimes with rusty mottling, or less often yellowbrown, bright green, or blackish green, regularly

atrocinerea Brotero Fl. Lusit. 1: 31. 1804. George W. Argus Common names: Rusty willow Synonyms: Salix cinerea var. atrocinerea (Brotero) O. Bolòs & Vigo

to golden apically. Glochids in thin adaxial crescent, yellow or tan to rusty, 0.5–6 mm. Flowers: inner tepals greenish yellow, often with tips reddish

glabrous to pubescent; longest involucral-bract exceeding anthela. Spikelets rusty brown, lanceoloid, 4–6 mm; fertile scales broadly ovate to nearly orbiculate

364. Mentioned on page 363. Twigs usually glabrous, sometimes hairy, hairs rusty brown. Leaves: petiole (7–) 10–23 (–30) mm, glabrous, glandular distally

Branches nearly whorled, spreading-ascending; twigs slender, pale redbrown, rusty puberulent and slightly glandular (rarely glabrous), aging purple-brown or

apex obtuse, tardily dehiscent with 3 valves; carpophore absent. Seeds 3–6, rusty brown, ± ovate, ca. 2.5 mm diam., finely tuberculate. Phenology: Flowering

cm. Leaves: petiole slender, sometimes both abaxially and adaxially short rusty-tomentose, eglandular; blade broadly to narrowly deltate, 3–6 cm, base truncate

Mentioned on page 546, 547. Shrubs or trees, 30–50 dm. Stems: twigs: new growth rusty-tomentose, 1-year old chestnut-brown; thorns on twigs 2-years old dark gray

elliptical to linear, 3.5–6 mm; pappi usually reddish-brown, sometimes rusty, rarely yellowish, 6–7 mm. 2n = 32. Phenology: Flowering Aug–Oct. Habitat:

elliptic to broadly elliptic or ovate, 1–2.5 (–3) × 0.7–1.5 cm, densely rusty-lanate to tomentose abaxially, floccose or glabrous and olive green adaxially

often splitting it, opening by 6 recurved teeth; carpophore 2–3 mm. Seeds rusty brown, often with gray bloom, broadly reniform, 1–1.8 mm, coarsely papillate

page 223. Mentioned on page 208, 213. Plants in open tufts or mats, usually rusty-redbrown, rarely black or olivaceous. Stems 1–5 (–11) cm, central strand

compact to open cushions, (dark) olivaceous or reddish-brown, sometimes with rusty tones. Stems 0.5–2 cm, central strand distinct. Leaves curved, occasionally

(–4) mm stipelike base; perianth cream to light tan, densely tannish to rusty-lanate abaxially; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl broadly lanceolate

Eriogonum longifolium 1 Tepals dimorphic; perianths densely tannish- to rusty-lanate abaxially; filaments pilose; se Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South

perfoliatus 11 Floating leaf blade rounded to cordate at base; stem conspicuously rusty- or black-spotted; submersed leaf blades crispate, mostly arcuate. > 12 11

surface; widespread or more southern species > 10 10 Plants usually red-brown (rusty), rarely black or olivaceous; leaves ± imbricate proximal to the stem apex

0.6–1.3 cm; outermost tepal margins toothed; inner tepals maroon-red to rusty red or reddish purple, with paler margins, 4 × 1.5 mm; stigma lobes dull

nearly a right angle to stem, curved upward, sometimes secund, dull green or rusty brown when dry, narrowly lanceoloid to lanceoloid, 20–40 × 4–6 mm, free tips

Gordon C. Tucker*, Brian G. Marcks*, J. Richard Carter * Common names: Rusty flatsedge Illustrated Synonyms: Cyperus acicularis (Nees) Steudel Cyperus

and Sierra counties Eriogonum umbellatum var. polyanthum 14 Leaf blades rusty-lanate to tomentose abaxially; inflorescences branched 3-4 time, branches

surrounded by anthers at anthesis. Capsules erect or slightly spreading, usually rusty brown when dry, narrowly lanceoloid to lanceoloid, 15–40 × 4–8 mm, free tips

tomentum of the former tends to be more whitish, while that of the latter is rusty. Furthermore, the adaxial surface of the leaf blades in the latter tends