Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia |
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beach evening-primrose, beach suncup |
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Habit | Herbs short-lived perennial, sometimes woody at base, usually densely strigillose throughout, rarely glabrous, also villous distally. | ||||
Stems | prostrate, decumbent, or ascending from base, to 60(–130) cm. |
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Leaves | 0.5–5 × 0.3–2.2 cm; petiole 0–1.5(–2.5) cm, distal ones to 1 cm; blade narrowly ovate, base attenuate, cuneate, or cordate, margins sparsely serrulate, apex acute. |
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Flowers | opening near sunrise; floral tube 2.1–8.5 mm; sepals 4–11.5 mm; petals yellow, often red-dotted near base, 6–20 mm; episepalous filaments 2.8–8 mm, epipetalous filaments 1.5–6 mm, anthers 1–3 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored; style 6–23 mm, stigma surrounded by or exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | often coiled in 1–2 spirals, 4-angled, 10–25 × 2–2.5 mm. |
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Seeds | 1.2–1.3 mm. |
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Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia |
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Distribution | w United States; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia occurs on slopes and dunes along the immediate coast and on islands from Coos Bay, Curry County, Oregon, to the vicinity of San Quintín, Baja California; it is also known from the east shore of San Francisco Bay and locally on sand dunes along the lower Sacramento River, California, 0–100 m. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. cheiranthifolia to be self-incompatible (some populations in subsp. suffruticosa) or self-compatible (both subspecies) and apparently pollinated by oligolectic bees of Andrena subg. Onagrandrena (Raven); Raven subdivided the species into two intergrading subspecies. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | ||||
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis | ||||
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Synonyms | Oenothera cheiranthifolia, Agassizia cheiranthifolia, Camissonia cheiranthifolia, Holostigma cheiranthifolium, Sphaerostigma cheiranthifolium | ||||
Name authority | (Hornemann ex Sprengel) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 204. (2007) | ||||
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