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Great Basin suncup, Lewis River suncup, tiny sun cup

Habit Herbs usually glabrous or densely strigillose, rarely villous (mostly proximally), also often sparsely glandular puberulent, especially distally.
Stems

erect, slender, wiry, often branched, 2–15 cm.

Leaves

proximalmost not clustered near base;

blade linear or linear-filiform, 1–3 × 0.04–0.1 cm, base attenuate, margins subentire, apex acute.

Flowers

opening near sunrise;

floral tube 1.3–2 mm, glabrate;

sepals 1.5–2.5 mm, reflexed separately;

petals 1.5–3.6 mm, without red dots at base;

filaments 0.5–1 mm, anthers 0.3–0.6 mm, pollen with less than 5% of grains 4- or 5-pored;

style 1.5–3 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis.

Capsules

15–28 × 0.6–1 mm;

pedicel 0–2 mm.

Seeds

0.7–0.8 × 0.4 mm.

2n

= 28.

Camissonia parvula

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Sandy soils, usually with sagebrush scrub.
Elevation 100–2700 m. (300–8900 ft.)
Distribution
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AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY
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Discussion

P. H. Raven (1969) determined that Camissonia parvula is a self-compatible tetraploid and autogamous. The species is closely related to C. kernensis and C. pubens.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissonia
Sibling taxa
C. benitensis, C. campestris, C. contorta, C. integrifolia, C. kernensis, C. lacustris, C. pubens, C. pusilla, C. sierrae, C. strigulosa
Synonyms Oenothera parvula, O. contorta var. flexuosa, Sphaerostigma contortum var. flexuosum, S. filiforme, S. flexuosum, S. parvulum
Name authority (Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray) P. H. Raven: Brittonia 16: 284. (1964)
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