Camissonia parvula |
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Great Basin suncup, Lewis River suncup, tiny sun cup |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, usually with sagebrush scrub. |
Elevation | 100–2700 m. (300–8900 ft.) |
Distribution |
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 |
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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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