Camissonia sierrae subsp. sierrae |
Camissonia sierrae |
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Sierra sun cup |
Sierra sun cup |
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Habit | Herbs glabrous, villous, and glandular puberulent distally. | |||||
Stems | erect or ascending, slender, wiry, usually many-branched, 5–15 cm. |
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Leaves | proximalmost not clustered near base; blade usually lanceolateto narrowly ovate, sometimes elliptic, 0.5–1.8 × 0.2–0.5 cm, base rounded, margins inconspicuously serrulate or with 1–several small teeth, apex acute. |
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Flowers | floral tube 1.3–2.2 mm; sepals 3–4.2 mm; petals 4–7 mm, with 2 red dots basally; style 3–7 mm, stigma surrounded by or slightly elevated beyond anthers at anthesis. |
opening near sunrise; floral tube 1–2.2 mm, villous on proximal 1/2 inside; sepals 1.2–4.2 mm, reflexed in pairs; petals 2.2–7 mm, each usually with 0 or 2 red dots basally; episepalous filaments 2.4–3.2 mm, epipetalous filaments 1.2–2 mm, anthers 0.6–1.2 mm, pollen with less than 5% of grains 4- or 5-pored; style 2.8–7 mm, stigma 0.6–0.8 mm diam., surround by, or slightly exserted beyond, anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | 20–30 × 0.5–0.7 mm; subsessile. |
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Seeds | 0.8–1.6 × 0.4–0.6 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Camissonia sierrae subsp. sierrae |
Camissonia sierrae |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | |||||
Habitat | Granite outcrops, Pinus ponderosa forests, upper limits of Pinus sabiniana-Quercus douglasii forests. | |||||
Elevation | 500–1200 m. (1600–3900 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA |
California |
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Discussion | Subspecies sierrae is known from the Sierra Nevada foothills of Madera and central Mariposa counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). P. H. Raven (1969) determined that Camissonia sierrae is self-compatible and outcrossing or autogamous; it is closely related to C. campestris. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||
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Name authority | unknown | P. H. Raven: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 37: 326, figs. 58, 59. (1969) | ||||
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