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Lewis' evening-primrose

hairy sun cup, Santa Cruz Island suncup

Habit Herbs annual, villous, also glandular puberulent distally. Herbs annual, densely villous throughout, also glandular puberulent distally.
Stems

usually several, decumbent, rarely 1 erect stem, 30–60 cm.

erect, with 1 or more ascending branches from near base, to 60 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.

1–11 × 0.3–2.1 cm;

petiole 0–5 cm, distal ones 0–0.5 cm;

blade lanceolate to ovate, sometimes elliptic-ovate or ovate distally, base cordate to truncate, sometimes cuneate or attenuate, margins dentate, apex acute.

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 1–3 mm;

sepals 2.5–6 mm;

petals yellow, sometimes red-dotted near base, 2–9 mm, sometimes with a tooth arising from emarginate apex; episepalous filaments 1.2–6 mm, epipetalous filaments 0.5–3 mm, anthers 0.4–1 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored;

style 2–8 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.

1–2-coiled spiral, subterete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 13–20(–25) × 0.7–0.9 mm.

Seeds

0.7–0.8 mm.

1–1.2 mm.

2n

= 14.

= 14.

Camissoniopsis lewisii

Camissoniopsis hirtella

Phenology Flowering Mar–May(–Sep). Flowering (Jan–)Mar–Jul(–Nov).
Habitat Open sandy and clayey grasslands, coastal dunes and beaches. Brushy hills and slopes, on burns.
Elevation 0–300 m. [0–1000 ft.] 0–2300 m. [0–7500 ft.]
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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 hirtella occurs from Amador and Trinity counties southward in the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada of California to the Sierra de Juárez and Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, usually away from the immediate coast and barely reaching the margins of the desert. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. hirtella to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. The species occasionally hybridizes with C. ignota (Raven).

(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. ignota, C. intermedia, C. luciae, C. micrantha, C. pallida, C. robusta
C. bistorta, C. cheiranthifolia, C. confusa, C. guadalupensis, C. hardhamiae, C. ignota, C. intermedia, C. lewisii, C. luciae, C. micrantha, C. pallida, C. robusta
Synonyms Camissonia lewisii Oenothera hirtella, Camissonia hirtella, O. hirta var. jonesii, O. micrantha var. hirtella, O. micrantha var. jonesii, O. micrantha var. reedii, Sphaerostigma arenicola, S. bistortum var. reedii, S. hirtellum, S. hirtellum var. montanum, S. micranthum var. jonesii
Name authority (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) (Greene) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 204. (2007)
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