Rupertia rigida

Rupertia rigida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Embryophytes
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Spermatophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Genus:	Rupertia
Species:	R. rigida
Binomial name
Rupertia rigida (Parish) J.W.Grimes
Synonyms
Psoralea rigida

Rupertia rigida is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Parish's California tea,¹ or Parish's rupertia.

It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it is an uncommon member of the local mountain flora, growing in chaparral, woodland, and forest habitat types.

It is a bushy perennial herb producing a hairy, woody stem from a thick, purplish caudex, approaching 75 centimeters in maximum height with slender, leafy branches. The leaves are each made up of three hairy, glandular, lance-shaped leaflets up to 6 or 7 centimeters long.

The inflorescence is a clustered raceme of several whitish or yellowish pealike flowers. Each flower has a tubular calyx of sepals and a corolla spreading to about 1.5 centimeters in width.

The fruit is a hairy, gland-speckled, brownish legume around a centimeter long.