Kalmiopsis fragrans |
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fragrant kalmiopsis, Umpqua kalmiopsis |
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Habit | Plants erect, larger plants frequently trailing, loose, to 12(30) dm. |
Twigs | reddish to purplish, becoming gray to dark gray, puberulent and sparsely sessile-glandular, becoming glabrate. |
Leaves | sweetly aromatic, elliptic to elliptic-oblong; (5)8–30(45) × 4–10 mm, pale green abaxially; deep green adaxially, bases ± cuneate; margins entire; plane; tips obtuse, apiculate; surfaces abaxially moderately covered with sessile crystalline-punctate glands, adaxially glabrous or sparsely sessile dotted-glandular; petioles 1–4 mm, sparsely puberulent, glandular. |
Inflorescences | erect; (2)4–8(12)-flowered; bracts leaf-like. |
Pedicels | 0.5–2.5(3.3) cm; hairy, glandular. |
Flowers | calyx lobes ovate, 3–5 mm; reddish pink to purple; margins ± glandular-ciliate; corollas 16–28(33) mm in diameter; pale reddish purple to deep pink, connate ~33% of their length; throats mostly glabrous; petal ridges connected within corolla lobes; abaxial surface ± puberulent and glandular toward tip; filaments 7–16 mm, with yellowish cilia densely tufted basally; anthers oblong, 0.7–1.8 mm, purple; ovaries puberulent, dotted-glandular; styles dimorphic, 11–15 mm (long form), 5–8 mm (short form). |
Seeds | 0.3–0.7 mm. |
Kalmiopsis fragrans |
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Distribution | |
Discussion | Tuffaceous outcrops within shaded, mesic, coniferous forests, open ridges, bare rock or shallow soil at bases of cliffs or boulders. Flowering Apr–Jun. 400–1600 m. Casc. Native. Endemic to Oregon. In cultivation, K. fragrans has sometimes been sold as the “LePiniec” form of Kalmiopsis. In the wild, it has a narrow geographic range (restricted to Douglas County in the southern Cascades) and is significantly rarer than K. leachiana. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 628 Robert Meinke |
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