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Leaves several times divided (decompound) and mostly basal with herbage being glabrous, yellow flowers in compound umbels which are unequal. Plant has tuber like base and was found in a wet prairie in the Willamette Valley.

The flowers are quite small, notice the size in comparison to my finger tip. The leaves completely cover/disguise that their are berries attached. The bush grew wild amongst sage and weeds. It was absolutely loaded with small berries, in comparison about the size of blueberries, however were firm and green.

Okanagana arctostaphylae was first described in 1915 and has not been collected since. These are the first photos ever taken of it in its natural habitat, and the second photos ever of a live individual.

Small shrub, 0.3 to 0.8 m in height with yellow flowers up to 3 cm in diameter. 5 petals, 5 sepals, 3 styles, many stamens. Flowers in terminal clusters. Ovary superior with axile placentation. Glabrous leaves, glaucus on the lower surface, opposite in arrangement and sessile, 6 cm long.