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little sun cup, little wiry sun cup

Habit Herbs glandular puberulent and villous.
Stems

erect, slender, often branched, 2–22 cm.

Leaves

proximalmost usually clustered near base;

blade sometimes with purple splotches or dots, linear, 1–3 × 0.04–0.2 cm, base narrowly cuneate, margins serrulate, apex acuminate.

Flowers

opening near sunrise;

floral tube 0.8–1.6 mm, glabrous inside;

sepals 1.2–2 mm, reflexed separately;

petals 1.8–3.1 mm, each with 2 red dots basally; episepalous filaments 0.8–2 mm, epipetalous filaments 0.4–0.9 mm, anthers 0.3–0.4 mm, pollen with less than 5% of grains 4- or 5-pored;

style 1.6–3.2 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis.

Capsules

18–32 × 0.6–1 mm;

pedicel 0–2 mm.

Seeds

0.7–0.8 × 0.4 mm.

2n

= 14.

Camissonia pusilla

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Sandy soils on open or brushy slopes, usually with sagebrush scrub.
Elevation 100–3000 m. (300–9800 ft.)
Distribution
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CA; ID; NV; OR; UT; WA
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Discussion

P. H. Raven (1969) determined that Camissonia pusilla is a self-compatible diploid and autogamous; it is closely related to C. kernensis, C. parvula, 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. parvula, C. pubens, C. sierrae, C. strigulosa
Name authority P. H. Raven: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 37: 312; fig. 53. (1969)
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