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Purshia (bitterbrush or cliff-rose) is a small genus of 5-8 species of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae, native to western North America, where they grow in dry climates from southeast British Columbia in Canada south throughout the western United States to northern Mexico.
They are deciduous or evergreen shrubs, typically reaching 0.3-5 m tall. The leaves are small, 1-3 cm long, deeply three- to five-lobed, with revolute margins. The flowers are 1-2 cm diameter, with five white to pale yellow or pink petals and yellow stamens. The fruit is a cluster of dry, slender, leathery achenes 2-6 cm long.
The evergreen species were treated separately in the genus Cowania in the past; this genus is still accepted by some botanists.

Species

Purshia ericifolia - Heath Cliffrose. Texas.
Purshia glandulosa - Desert Bitterbrush. Nevada, Utah, Arizona.
Purshia mexicana - Mexican Cliffrose (syn. Cowania mexicana). Mexico, Arizona.
Purshia pinkavae - Pinkava's Cliffrose. Arizona.
Purshia plicata - Antelope Bush (syn. Cowania plicata). Mexico (Nuevo León).
Purshia stansburiana - Stansbury Cliffrose (syn. P. mexicana var. stansburiana, Cowania stansburiana). Idaho south to California, Arizona and New Mexico.
Purshia subintegra (possibly a hybrid between P. pinkavae and P. stansburiana). Arizona.
Purshia tridentata - Antelope Bitterbrush. British Columbia south to California and New Mexico.

The classification of Purshia within the Rosaceae is presently unclear. The genus was originally placed in the subfamily Rosoideae, and later in subfamily Dryadeae along with the genera Cercocarpus, Chamaebatia and Dryas, all genera sharing root nodules that host the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Frankia. However, recent genetic research indicates that Dryadeae may be polyphyletic, with Dryas not closely related to the other genera. Image:Purshia_tridentata_8234.jpg|P. tridentata, Lava Beds National Monument Image:Purshia stansburiana 1.jpg|P. stansburiana, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada Image:Purshia stansburiana 3.jpg|P. stansburiana, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada Image:Purshia stansburiana 4.jpg|P. stansburiana, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada Further Information

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