Camissoniopsis pallida |
Camissoniopsis lewisii |
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pale yellow sun cup |
Lewis' evening-primrose |
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Habit | Herbs annual, appearing conspicuously grayish, densely strigillose, sometimes also glandular puberulent distally. | Herbs annual, villous, also glandular puberulent distally. | ||||
Stems | usually with decumbent lateral branches from basal rosette, 5–60 cm. |
usually several, decumbent, rarely 1 erect stem, 30–60 cm. |
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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. |
1–8 × 0.2–1.1 cm; petiole 0–3 cm; blade narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, base cuneate or subcordate, margins denticulate, apex acute. |
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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 1.5–4 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. |
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Capsules | usually 1–3-coiled spiral, subterete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 13–24 × 0.7–1.2 mm. |
usually loosely 1-coiled, conspicuously 4-angled in living material, 13–20 × 1.8–2.2 mm. |
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Seeds | 1–1.5 mm. |
0.7–0.8 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Camissoniopsis pallida |
Camissoniopsis lewisii |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May(–Sep). | |||||
Habitat | Open sandy and clayey grasslands, coastal dunes and beaches. | |||||
Elevation | 0–300 m. (0–1000 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 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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis | ||||
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Synonyms | Sphaerostigma pallidum, Camissonia pallida, Oenothera abramsii, O. micrantha var. abramsii | Camissonia lewisii | ||||
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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