Under microscope counted 5 sepals. Keys out to C. Colligsta subspecies lamprosperma.
Slender shrub/tree about 2 m tall growing between the Cobal Canyon Trail and stream in the canyon in the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park.
Growing in fine-grained silty soil that had collected behind a rocky outcrop along the South side of Bass Lake at the Bass Lake Regional Park.
Growing in a bed of moss.
The leaves on this 4 foot tall plant were mostly dried and the coin used was an American quarter (0.955 inches in diameter)