Camissonia strigulosa |
Camissonia parvula |
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contorted primrose, sandysoil suncup |
Great Basin suncup, Lewis River suncup, tiny sun cup |
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Habit | Herbs densely strigillose, often also glandular puberulent, especially distally, or sometimes glandular puberulent only and then glabrate, sometimes also villous near base. | Herbs usually glabrous or densely strigillose, rarely villous (mostly proximally), also often sparsely glandular puberulent, especially distally. |
Stems | usually erect, sometimes decumbent, slender, wiry, usually many-branched, to 50 cm. |
erect, slender, wiry, often branched, 2–15 cm. |
Leaves | proximalmost not clustered near base; blade linear to very narrowly elliptic, 0.8–3.5 × 0.1–0.3 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margins sparsely serrulate, apex acute. |
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 1.6–2.7 mm, usually moderately to sparsely pubescent inside on proximal 1/2, rarely glabrous; sepals 1.6–4 mm, reflexed in pairs; petals 2.1–4.2(–4.5) mm, each ± with 2 red dots basally; episepalous filaments 0.9–2(–2.2) mm, epipetalous filaments 0.5–1.3 mm, anthers 0.3–0.6 mm, pollen with usually less than 10% of grains 4-pored; style 2.3–4.8 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
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 | 15–45 × 0.8–1.3 mm; subsessile. |
15–28 × 0.6–1 mm; pedicel 0–2 mm. |
Seeds | 0.6–0.8 × 0.3–0.4 mm. |
0.7–0.8 × 0.4 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Camissonia strigulosa |
Camissonia parvula |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Aug. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Open, sandy soils of dunes, grasslands, desert scrub. | Sandy soils, usually with sagebrush scrub. |
Elevation | 0–2100 m. (0–6900 ft.) | 100–2700 m. (300–8900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY
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Discussion | Camissonia strigulosa is known in the flora area from central to southern California, west of the Sierra Nevada. P. H. Raven (1969) determined that Camissonia strigulosa is a self-compatible tetraploid and autogamous; it is closely related to C. benitensis, C. contorta, C. integrifolia, and C. lacustris. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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. | FNA vol. 10. |
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissonia | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissonia |
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Synonyms | Sphaerostigma strigulosum, Oenothera contorta var. epilobioides, O. contorta var. strigulosa, O. strigulosa, O. strigulosa var. epilobioides | Oenothera parvula, O. contorta var. flexuosa, Sphaerostigma contortum var. flexuosum, S. filiforme, S. flexuosum, S. parvulum |
Name authority | (Fischer & C. A. Meyer) P. H. Raven: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 37: 333. (1969) | (Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray) P. H. Raven: Brittonia 16: 284. (1964) |
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