Camissonia pusilla |
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little sun cup, little wiry sun cup |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Sandy soils on open or brushy slopes, usually with sagebrush scrub. |
Elevation | 100–3000 m. (300–9800 ft.) |
Distribution |
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. |
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Name authority | P. H. Raven: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 37: 312; fig. 53. (1969) |
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