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pale yellow sun cup

intermediate sun cups, intermediate suncup

Habit Herbs annual, appearing conspicuously grayish, densely strigillose, sometimes also glandular puberulent distally. Herbs annual, appearing greenish, moderately villous, often also glandular puberulent on stems distally and on inflorescences.
Stems

usually with decumbent lateral branches from basal rosette, 5–60 cm.

erect, usually with 1+ ascending branches from basal rosette, 30–60 cm.

Leaves

1–5(–11) × 0.2–0.7(–1.4) cm;

petiole 0–0.2(–0.4) cm, distal ones sessile;

blade lanceolate to narrowly ovate, base often cuneate to truncate, sometimes attenuate, margins sparsely denticulate, apex acute to obtuse.

1–12 × 0.2–1.7 cm;

petiole 0–1 cm, distal ones sessile;

blade lanceolate to narrowly ovate, base cuneate to truncate, basal and proximal cauline often attenuate, margins denticulate, apex acute.

Flowers

opening near sunrise;

floral tube 1–4.2 mm;

sepals (1.5–)2.5–8 mm;

petals yellow, sometimes with 1–3 red dots basally, (2–)3.5–13 mm; episepalous filaments (0.5–)1.5–6.5 mm, epipetalous filaments (0.2–)0.5–3.8 mm, anthers (0.4–)0.8–2.2 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored;

style (2.1–)3–10.5 mm, stigma surrounded by at least anthers of longer stamens, often by both sets, at anthesis.

opening near sunrise;

floral tube 1.2–2 mm;

sepals 1–2.5 mm;

petals yellow, with 1 or 2 red dots basally, 1.5–3.5(–4.5) mm; episepalous filaments 0.8–1.5 mm, epipetalous filaments 0.5–0.9 mm, anthers 0.4–0.5 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored;

style 2–3.5 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis.

Capsules

usually 1–3-coiled spiral, subterete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 13–24 × 0.7–1.2 mm.

straight or 1-coiled spiral, subterete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 13–25 × 1.1–1.2 mm.

Seeds

1–1.5 mm.

0.7–1.1 mm.

2n

= 28.

Camissoniopsis pallida

Camissoniopsis intermedia

Phenology Flowering Mar–Jun(–Sep).
Habitat Disturbed brushy slopes, on burns.
Elevation (150–)300–800 m. ((500–)1000–2600 ft.)
Distribution
w United States; nw Mexico
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

P. H. Raven (1969) determined Camissoniopsis pallida to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous.

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

Camissoniopsis intermedia occurs from Lake and Yolo counties (where rare) south in the Coast Ranges of California to the western San Gabriel Mountains, western Riverside and San Diego counties, and south in Baja California to the south end of the Sierra San Miguel; also on Santa Catalina and Santa Cruz islands. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. intermedia to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. The species is apparently a tetraploid derived via hybridization between two diploid (2n = 14) species, C. hirtella and C. micrantha.

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

Key
1. Floral tube 1–3 mm; petals (2–)3.5–6(–8) mm; styles (2.1–)3–6.5 mm.
subsp. pallida
1. Floral tube 3.8–4.2 mm; petals 6.5–13 mm; styles 6.5–10.5 mm.
subsp. hallii
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. lewisii, C. luciae, C. micrantha, C. robusta
C. bistorta, C. cheiranthifolia, C. confusa, C. guadalupensis, C. hardhamiae, C. hirtella, C. ignota, C. lewisii, C. luciae, C. micrantha, C. pallida, C. robusta
Subordinate taxa
C. pallida subsp. hallii, C. pallida subsp. pallida
Synonyms Sphaerostigma pallidum, Camissonia pallida, Oenothera abramsii, O. micrantha var. abramsii Camissonia intermedia
Name authority (Abrams) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007)
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