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San Clemente Island evening-primrose

Habit Herbs annual, strigillose, usually also sparsely villous, often also glandular puberulent distally.
Stems

arising from base, usually decumbent, rarely with only 1, erect stem, 10–55 cm.

Leaves

1.5–7 × 0.3–1.3 cm;

petiole (0–)0.2–2.5 cm, petiolate distally;

blade narrowly lanceolate, lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, base attenuate, margins serrulate, apex acute.

Flowers

opening near sunrise;

floral tube (1.1–)1.8–3 mm;

sepals 2.6–5.5 mm;

petals yellow, sometimes red-dotted near base, (3–)4–8 mm; episepalous filaments (1.2–)2.5–3.6 mm, epipetalous filaments (1–)1.3–2 mm, anthers (0.6–)0.8–1.6 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored;

style (3–)4.5–7 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis.

Capsules

very slender, usually much contorted, irregularly to 5-coiled, rarely simply flexuous, terete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 20–30 × 0.8–1 mm.

Seeds

1.2–1.3 mm.

2n

= 14.

Camissoniopsis ignota

Camissoniopsis guadalupensis

Phenology Flowering (Jan–)Mar–Apr(–Aug).
Habitat Clay or sandy soils, flats and slopes in coastal sage scrub or chap­arral, sandy soils in mountains.
Elevation 100–1100(–1500) m. (300–3600(–4900) ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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nw Mexico; California
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Discussion

Camissoniopsis ignota is most common in clay fields and slopes at low elevations, but occasional on sandy soil and higher in the mountains in the Coast Ranges and bordering valleys from Yolo County, California, south to the southern end of the Sierra San Miguel, in Baja California, usually away from the immediate coast and barely reaching the margins of the desert. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. ignota to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora).

Camissoniopsis guadalupensis is known from San Clemente Island, Los Angeles County, California (subsp. clementiana), and Isla Guadalupe, Baja California (subsp. guadalupensis). P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. guadalupensis to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 10. FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis
Sibling taxa
C. bistorta, C. cheiranthifolia, C. confusa, C. guadalupensis, C. hardhamiae, C. hirtella, C. intermedia, C. lewisii, C. luciae, C. micrantha, C. pallida, C. robusta
C. bistorta, C. cheiranthifolia, C. confusa, C. hardhamiae, C. hirtella, C. ignota, C. intermedia, C. lewisii, C. luciae, C. micrantha, C. pallida, C. robusta
Subordinate taxa
C. guadalupensis subsp. clementiana
Synonyms Oenothera micrantha var. ignota, Camissonia ignota, O. hirta var. ignota, O. ignota Oenothera guadalupensis, Camissonia guadalupensis
Name authority (Jepson) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) (S. Watson) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 204. (2007)
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