Macoun's Meadowfoam

Limnanthes macounii Trel. Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat Hist. 4: 85. 1887. Limnanthes Douglasii Macoun, Cat. Can. PI. 3 : 502. 1886. Floerkea Macounii Trel. in A. Gray, Syn. Fl. V : 363. 1897.
Glabrous annual; stems much-branched at the base, decumbent or ascending, 4-8 cm. long; basal leaves pinnate, glabrous; divisions 5-9, ovate, 6-12 mm. long, 3-5-toothed or cleft, with lanceolate teeth or lobes ; stem-leaves reduced ; peduncles 1-3 cm. long; flowers 4-merous ; sepals glabrous, lanceolate, acute, 3-4 mm. long; petals white or cream-colored, oblong-cuneate, erose-truncate, 3-4 mm. long ; carpels obovoid, 3 mm. long, with prominent conic tubercles.
Type locality : Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.

Limnanthes macounii (Macoun's meadowfoam) is an endangered meadowfoam. It is a narrow endemic of south-western British Columbia, Canada. It was discovered in 1875 in the vicinity of the city of Victoria. Once thought to be extinct it was rediscovered in 1957 on Trial Island, BC and is now known from several scattered localities in southern British Columbia It is a winter annual growing in seasonally wet areas.