Berberis piperiana

Berberis piperiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Berberidaceae
Genus: Berberis
Species: B. piperiana
Binomial name
Berberis piperiana
(Abrams) McMinn
Synonyms[1]

Mahonia piperiana Abrams

Berberis piperiana is a shrub native to the mountains of northern California and southwestern Oregon. It is found in open and wooded slopes at elevations of 900–1,700 m (3,000–5,600 ft).[2]

Berberis piperiana can attain a height of up to 80 cm (31 in). Leaves are evergreen, pinnately compound with 5-9 leaflets. Berries are dark blue and waxy. The species is related to the more common Oregon-grape, B. aquifolium, but distinguished by its shorter stature and broader leaflets.[2][3][4]

The compound leaves place this species in the group sometimes segregated as the genus Mahonia.[2][5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Tropicos
  2. 1 2 3 Flora of North America vol 3
  3. ↑ McMinn, Howard Earnest. Illustrated Manual of California Shrubs 125. 1939.
  4. ↑ Abrams, LeRoy. Phytologia 1: 91. 1934.
  5. ↑ Loconte, H., & J. R. Estes. 1989. Phylogenetic systematics of Berberidaceae and Ranunculales (Magnoliidae). Systematic Botany 14:565-579.
  6. ↑ Marroquín, Jorge S., & Joseph E. Laferrière. 1997. Transfer of specific and infraspecific taxa from Mahonia to Berberis. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 30(1):53-55.
  7. ↑ Laferrière, Joseph E. 1997. Transfer of specific and infraspecific taxa from Mahonia to Berberis. Bot. Zhurn. 82(9):96-99.
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