Common Names
Sargent cypress (1).
Taxonomic notes
Syn: Cupressus sargentii Jepson var. duttonii Jepson (3).
Description
"Trees to 25 m, but often shrubby and less than 10 m; crown broader than tall or columnar, dense or open. Bark rough, furrowed, fibrous. Branchlets decussate, (1.5)2-2.5 mm diam. Leaves usually with inconspicuous, shallow, pitlike, abaxial gland that usually does not produce drop of resin, often glaucous. Pollen cones mostly 3-4 × 2 mm; pollen sacs 3-4. Seed cones usually globose, mostly 2-2.5 cm, brown or gray, not glaucous; scales mostly 3-4 pairs, with scattered resin blisters, umbos inconspicuous or to 4 mm. Seeds 4-6 mm, dark brown, faintly to prominently glaucous" (3).Range
USA: California: Coast Ranges from extreme N Mendocino County (Red Mtn.) and Cooks Springs, Colusa County; south through Lake, Napa and Marin Counties; reappearing on Cedar Mtn., Alameda Co.; in the Santa Lucia Mtns. of Monterey Co. and San Luis Obispo Co.; and on Zaca Pk. (at 915 m) in the San Rafael Mtns. of northern Santa Barbara Co. (1). Found at 200-1100 m in chaparral, foothill woodland, and lower montane forests, often on serpentine (3). These sites have a Mediterreanean (maritime winter-wet) climate with about 600 mm annual precipitation (1). See also (5).Big Tree
Height 44 m, dbh 120 cm, crown spread 12 m; in Sonoma County (2).Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Not seen. Herbarium collections (4) have been made in the following locales: 1) Sonoma County: NE of Occidental on Stoetz Lane, off Harrison Grade; 2) Sonoma County: Duvoul Creek ridge S; E of Bohemian Highway (N of Camp Meeker). Peattie (1) also suggests looking for it at the NE base of Mt. St. Helena (Lake/Napa County), on Mt. Tamalpais (Marin County), on Cedar Mtn. near the Lick Observatory in Alameda County, and the mountains just behing the Hearst Castle (San Luis Obispo County).Remarks
Citations
(1) Peattie 1950 .(2) American Forests 1996 .
(3) James E. Eckenwalder at the Flora of North America web site .
(4) Herbarium data for all California species are accessible via the CalFlora Database .
(5) Robert S. Thompson, Katherine H. Anderson and Patrick J. Bartlein. 1999. Atlas of Relations Between Climatic Parameters and Distributions of Important Trees and Shrubs in North America. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1650 A&B. URL= http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/ppapers/p1650-a/pages/conifers.html, accessed 22-Jan-2000.
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