Chylismia cardiophylla |
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heart leaf primrose, heartleaf suncup |
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Habit | Herbs annual or perennial, villous and glandular puberulent. | ||||
Stems | usually well branched, forming bushy habit, 20–100 cm. |
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Leaves | cauline, mostly toward base; petiole (0.7–)2.5–7.5 cm; blade cordate-ovate to -orbiculate, 2.5–7.5 × 2.3–5.5 cm, smaller distally, margins erose-dentate. |
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Racemes | nodding, congested. |
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Flowers | floral tube 4.5–14 mm, villous inside; sepals 3–9 mm; petals yellow, 3–12 mm; filaments 1–3 mm, anthers 2–4 mm; style 8–23 mm, stigma surrounded by or exserted just beyond anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | ascending, cylindrical, 20–55 mm; pedicel 1–18 mm. |
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Seeds | 0.5–0.7 mm. |
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Chylismia cardiophylla |
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Distribution | sw United States; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (2 in the flora). P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-compatible, but primarily outcrossing. Subspecies cedrosensis (Greene) W. L. Wagner & Hoch, occurs in Baja California and adjacent Sonora, Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | ||||
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Lignothera | ||||
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Synonyms | Oenothera cardiophylla, Camissonia cardiophylla | ||||
Name authority | (Torrey) Small: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 193. (1896) — (as Chylisma) | ||||
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