Boykinia occidentalis - Coast Boykinia

Family: Saxifragaceae (Saxifrage) ^[E-flora]

[1] Boykinia occidentalis

[2] Boykinia occidentalis

[3] as Boykinia elata

"General: Perennial herb from rhizomes; stems slender, leafy, 15-60 cm tall, brownish- to reddish-hairy, often glandular-hairy." ^{[IFBC-E-flora]}
"Leaves: Basal and lower stem leaves long-stalked, heart- to kidney-shaped, 2-8 cm wide, 5- to 7-cleft to about 1/2 their length, 2- to 3-times sharply-toothed, the teeth bristle-tipped; upper stem leaves unstalked; stipules slightly winged with several, long brownish bristles." ^{[IFBC-E-flora]}
"Flowers: Inflorescence a terminal, open, compound panicle, the stalks reddish, densely glandular; flowers slightly irregular; petals white, 5-6 mm long, spoon-shaped to oblanceolate, short-clawed, deciduous; calyces 4-5 mm long, top- to urn-shaped, lobed about 1/3 length into narrowly lance-shaped segments, the lobes smooth, the base attached to ovary, glandular; stamens 5, shorter than sepals; pistils solitary, the ovary over 1/2 inferior." ^{[IFBC-E-flora]}
"Fruits: Capsules, beaked; seeds black, minutely spiny." ^{[IFBC-E-flora]}

"Habitat / Range Moist woodlands, meadows and streambanks in the lowland and montane zones; frequent on Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland; S to CA." ^{[IFBC-E-flora]}

Status: Native ^[E-flora]

• Incense/Fragrance
  • Karok Other - Dried leaves sometimes worn inside basket caps for the fragrance. [UMD-Eth - Schenck]

• Tuberculosis Remedy
  • Quileute Drug - Raw leaves eaten for tuberculosis. [UMD-Eth - Gunther]
• Misc: Yuki Drug - Roots used medicinally for unspecified purpose. [UMD-Eth - Chestnut]

Synonyms

• Boykinia elata (Nutt.) Greene
• Boykinia vancouverensis (Rydb.) Fedde ^[E-flora]

• Aphid Host Plant
  • Nasonovia stroyani ^{[Blackman AWHPS]}

1. [E-flora] https://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Boykinia%20occidentalis, Accessed 01/22/2021 & 10:43 PM September 20, 2024
2. [UMD-Eth]
   • [Chestnut] Chestnut, V. K. 1902 Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California. Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408. (p. 353)
   • [Gunther] Gunther, Erna 1973 Ethnobotany of Western Washington. Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition (p. 31)
   • [Schenck] Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford 1952 Karok Ethnobotany. Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392 (p. 384)

Image References

• [1] Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• [2] Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• [3] Leslie Seaton from Seattle, WA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Boykinia Sp.

"Habit: Plant glandular; rhizome scaly; bulblets 0. Leaf: basal and cauline, distal reduced, becoming bract-like; stipules inconspicuous to leaf-like; blade round to ovate, base cordate to reniform, occasionally truncate, obtuse, or tapered, primary lobes 3--many, shallow to deep, teeth sharp-tipped. Inflorescence: +- flat-topped or +- tapered to tip, > 15-flowered, generally 1-sided; bracts sessile to short-petioled, proximal leaf-like. Flower: hypanthium partly fused to ovary; petals often ephemeral; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary > 1/2-inferior, chambers 2, placentas 2, axile. Fruit: capsule. Species In Genus: 8 species: North America, Asia. Etymology: (S. Boykin, Georgia naturalist, 1786--1848)" ^[Jepson]

Local Species;

1. Boykinia occidentalis - coast boykinia ^[E-flora]

References

• [Jepson] Michael S. Park & Patrick E. Elvander, 2012. Boykinia, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=11328, accessed on Mar 16 2014