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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Whipplea''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Cornales]]
| familia = [[Hydrangeaceae]]
| genus = '''''Whipplea'''''
| species = '''''W. modesta'''''
| binomial = ''Whipplea modesta''
| binomial_authority = [[John Torrey|Torr.]]
}}
'''''Whipplea''''' is a monotypic genus containing the single species '''''Whipplea modesta''''', which is known by several common names including '''common whipplea''', '''yerba de selva''', and '''modesty'''. It is a [[dicot]] shrub or sub-shrub in the [[Hydrangeaceae]] family, native to the Pacific Coastal region of the United States.
''Whipplea'' appears to have been first recorded in 1853 by the Scottish botanical explorer [[John Jeffrey (botanist)|John Jeffrey]] in the [[Umpqua Valley]] near [[Mount Shasta]], [[California]], and named for Lieutenant [[Amiel Weeks Whipple]] (1817-1863), American surveyor and engineer.
== References ==
* Harvey, A. G., "John Jeffrey: Botanical Explorer", in ''The Siskiyou Pioneer in Folklore, Fact and Fiction and Yearbook'', Siskiyou County Historical Society. 1947. pp. 17-19, 39.
*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5602,5612,5613 Jepson Manual Treatment]
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Whipplea''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Cornales]]
| familia = [[Hydrangeaceae]]
| genus = '''''Whipplea'''''
| species = '''''W. modesta'''''
| binomial = ''Whipplea modesta''
| binomial_authority = [[John Torrey|Torr.]]
}}
'''''Whipplea''''' is a monotypic genus containing the single species '''''Whipplea modesta''''', which is known by several common names including '''common whipplea''', '''yerba de selva''', and '''modesty'''. It is a [[dicot]] shrub or sub-shrub in the [[Hydrangeaceae]] family, native to the Pacific Coastal region of the United States.
''Whipplea'' appears to have been first recorded in 1853 by the Scottish botanical explorer [[John Jeffrey (botanist)|John Jeffrey]] in the [[Umpqua Valley]] near [[Mount Shasta]], [[California]], and named for Lieutenant [[Amiel Weeks Whipple]] (1817-1863), American surveyor and engineer.
== References ==
* Harvey, A. G., "John Jeffrey: Botanical Explorer", in ''The Siskiyou Pioneer in Folklore, Fact and Fiction and Yearbook'', Siskiyou County Historical Society. 1947. pp. 17-19, 39.
*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5602,5612,5613 Jepson Manual Treatment]
