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Kerria japonica, commonly known as Japanese kerria [1] or Japanese rose, [2] is a deciduous, yellow-flowering shrub in the rose family , native to China and Japan. It is the only species in the genus Kerria. In the wild, it grows in thickets on mountain slopes. Japanese kerria has been used for medicine and is also planted in gardens.
Blumeriella kerriae is limited to the leaves and stems of plants in the Kerria genus, which includes early flowering, deciduous shrubs that are common in gardens. The most popular of these shrubs is Kerria japonica, commonly known as Japanese Kerria. [8] [5] These shrubs grow in full to part-shade landscapes and are cold hardy.
Numerous plant communities exist in California and botanists have attempted to structure them into identifiable vegetation types groupings. Robert Ornduff and colleagues Phyllis M. Faber and Todd Keeler-Wolf did much work on this problem, and in the 2003 Natural History Guide Introduction to California Plant Life [citation needed] established a cohesive set of titles to identify California ...
Of California's total plant population, 2,153 species, subspecies, and varieties are endemic and native to California alone, according to the 1993 Jepson Manual study. [4] This botanical diversity stems not only from the size of the state, but also its diverse topographies , climates, and soils (e.g. serpentine outcrops ).
K. japonica may refer to: Kadsura japonica, an ornamental plant species; Kathablepharis japonica, a single-celled eukaryote species; Kerria japonica, a deciduous shrub species native to eastern Asia, in China, Japan and Korea; Kumba japonica, a rattail fish species found in the waters around Taiwan and southern Japan
The coast of California north of San Francisco contains the Northern California coastal forests (as defined by the WWF) and the southern section of the Coast Range ecoregion (as defined by the EPA). This ecoregion is dominated by redwood forest , containing the tallest and some of the oldest trees in the world.
Kerria may refer to: Kerria, a genus of scale insects in the family Kerriidae; Kerria, a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae This page was ...
Whitney organized the first comprehensive survey of California, and the first complete topographic maps of the state were completed under him. Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in California is named after him. The State Mining Bureau was established in 1880, and the position of State Geologist was changed to State Mineralogist.