Camissoniopsis lewisii |
Camissoniopsis confusa |
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Lewis' evening-primrose |
San Bernardino sun cup |
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Habit | Herbs annual, villous, also glandular puberulent distally. | Herbs annual, densely villous, often also strigillose, at least sparsely villous and glandular puberulent on stems distally and on inflorescences. |
Stems | usually several, decumbent, rarely 1 erect stem, 30–60 cm. |
erect, with multiple branches, rarely with 1 stem, to 70 cm. |
Leaves | 1–8 × 0.2–1.1 cm; petiole 0–3 cm; blade narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, base cuneate or subcordate, margins denticulate, apex acute. |
1–6 × 0.4–2 cm; petiole 0–3 cm, distal ones sessile; blade lanceolate or narrowly ovate, base round or truncate, margins sparsely denticulate, apex long-acuminate. |
Flowers | opening near sunrise; floral tube 1.5–4 m; sepals 1.7–3.4 mm; petals yellow, with 1 or 2 red dots basally, 2.5–5.5 mm; episepalous filaments 2–2.8 mm, epipetalous filaments 1–1.7 mm, anthers 0.7–1.2 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored; style 2.8–4.5 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
opening near sunrise; floral tube (1.8–)2–3.8 mm; sepals (1.5–)3.2–8.5 mm; petals yellow, usually with 1 or 2 red dots basally, (2.5–)5–10.5 mm; episepalous filaments (1.2–)2.5–4.5 mm, epipetalous filaments (0.8–)1.5–2.5 mm, anthers (0.4–)0.8–1.5 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored; style (2.5–)4.5–7.5 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
Capsules | usually loosely 1-coiled, conspicuously 4-angled in living material, 13–20 × 1.8–2.2 mm. |
straight or 1–2-coiled spiral, subterete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 13–23 × 0.9–1.2 mm. |
Seeds | 0.7–0.8 mm. |
0.7–1.1 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Camissoniopsis lewisii |
Camissoniopsis confusa |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May(–Sep). | Flowering Mar–Jun(–Jul). |
Habitat | Open sandy and clayey grasslands, coastal dunes and beaches. | Dry inland slopes, chaparral. |
Elevation | 0–300 m. [0–1000 ft.] | 300–2000 m. [1000–6600 ft.] |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AZ; CA
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Discussion | Camissoniopsis lewisii occurs from Point Dume and the Los Angeles Basin, Los Angeles County, south to Cardon Grande at the northern edge of Baja California Sur. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. lewisii to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous, and suggested that this coastal Camissoniopsis may have been derived more or less directly from coastal populations of C. bistorta. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Camissoniopsis confusa occurs in California from the La Panza Range of central San Luis Obispo County south through the Coast Ranges to the San Bernardino Mountains and southern San Diego County; also in central Arizona (westernmost Gila, Maricopa, and northern Pinal counties). P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. confusa to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. The species apparently is a tetraploid derived via hybridization between two diploid (2n = 14) species, C. hirtella and C. pallida. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
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Synonyms | Camissonia lewisii | Camissonia confusa |
Name authority | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 204. (2007) |
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