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Lewis' evening-primrose

jurupa hills sun cup

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

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

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

1.5–7 × 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 1.5–4 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 (1.1–)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

usually loosely 1-coiled, conspicuously 4-angled in living material, 13–20 × 1.8–2.2 mm.

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

0.7–0.8 mm.

1.2–1.3 mm.

2n

= 14.

= 14.

Camissoniopsis lewisii

Camissoniopsis ignota

Phenology Flowering Mar–May(–Sep). Flowering (Jan–)Mar–Apr(–Aug).
Habitat Open sandy and clayey grasslands, coastal dunes and beaches. Clay or sandy soils, flats and slopes in coastal sage scrub or chap­arral, sandy soils in mountains.
Elevation 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) 100–1100(–1500) m. (300–3600(–4900) 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 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.)

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. hirtella, C. intermedia, C. lewisii, C. luciae, C. micrantha, C. pallida, C. robusta
Synonyms Camissonia lewisii Oenothera micrantha var. ignota, Camissonia ignota, O. hirta var. ignota, O. ignota
Name authority (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) (Jepson) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007)
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