Olympic mountain rockmat

Eriogynia hendersonii Canby, Bot. Gaz. 16: 236. 1891 (as hendersoni); Luetkea hendersonii (Canby) Greene; Spiraea hendersonii (Canby) Piper

Shrubs, 2–9 dm diam. Stems decumbent to ascending, 1–10 cm, internodes 0.5–1.5 cm. Leaves: blade narrowly obtrullate, sometimes oblanceolate to spatulate-obovate, 1–2(–3) × 0.2–0.6 cm, palmately 3-veined, venation visible through hairs, apex acute, abaxial surface sparsely strigose, pilose to pilose-sericeous, sometimes glabrate, sparsely strigose along veins. Panicles densely racemose, 2–5 × 1–2 cm, sparsely sericeous; bracts linear, 2–4(–6) mm, pilose. Pedicels 2–5 mm; bracteoles 1, rarely extending to base of sepals. Flowers 3–5 mm diam.; hypanthium 0.5–1 mm, sparsely pilose; sepals reflexed, oblong to obtuse, 1–1.5 mm, margins ciliate, abaxial surface sparsely pilose; petals oval, oblong, or obovate, 2–2.5 mm, apex obtuse, sometimes 2-lobate; stamens 25–40, lengths 1–1.3 times petals (2 times sepals); carpels (4–)5(–6), abaxially connate. Follicles 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 18.

Flowering Jul–Sep. Rock outcrops, cliffs, talus slopes; 1000–2300 m; Wash.

Petrophytum hendersonii is known only from the Olympic Mountains of northwestern Washington.