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Sierra sun cup

Sierra sun cup

Habit Herbs glabrous, villous, and glandular puberulent distally.
Stems

erect or ascending, slender, wiry, usually many-branched, 5–15 cm.

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.

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.

Capsules

20–30 × 0.5–0.7 mm;

subsessile.

Seeds

0.8–1.6 × 0.4–0.6 mm.

2n

= 14.

Camissonia sierrae subsp. sierrae

Camissonia sierrae

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
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from USDA
California
[BONAP county map]
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.)

Key
1. Sepals 3–4.2 mm; base of petals with 2 red dots; styles 3–7 mm.
subsp. sierrae
1. Sepals 1.2–3 mm; base of petals without red dots; styles 2.8–5 mm.
subsp. alticola
Source FNA vol. 10. FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissonia > Camissonia sierrae Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissonia
Sibling taxa
C. sierrae subsp. alticolaP.
C. benitensis, C. campestris, C. contorta, C. integrifolia, C. kernensis, C. lacustris, C. parvula, C. pubens, C. pusilla, C. strigulosa
Subordinate taxa
C. sierrae subsp. alticola, C. sierrae subsp. sierrae
Name authority unknown P. H. Raven: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 37: 326, figs. 58, 59. (1969)
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