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pale sun cup

Habit Herbs slender, usually branched distally, usually strigillose, sometimes also villous proximally.
Flowers

buds not individually reflexed, without free tips or with apical free tips less than 1 mm;

floral tube yellow inside, 4–5 mm;

petals often with red dots near base, fading yellow to orange, 7–12 mm;

anthers 4–6 mm.

Capsules

20–42 mm;

pedicel 2–10 mm.

2n

= 14.

Chylismia brevipes subsp. pallidula

Phenology Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat Dry flats, desert pavement, with Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea.
Elevation 70–1100 m. (200–3600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT
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Discussion

Subspecies pallidula occurs in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts from Washington County, Utah, to southeastern Inyo County, California, south to Riverside County, California, Mohave County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada. It hybridizes with Chylismia claviformis subspp. aurantiaca and peeblesii, as well as with C. multijuga.

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

Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia > Chylismia brevipes
Sibling taxa
C. brevipes subsp. arizonica, C. brevipes subsp. brevipes
Synonyms Oenothera brevipes var. pallidula, Camissonia brevipes subsp. pallidula, O. brevipes subsp. pallidula, O. pallidula
Name authority (Munz) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007)
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