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heart leaf primrose

Habit Herbs villous, sometimes also glandular puberulent.
Flowers

floral tube 4.5–12 mm;

petals 3–12 mm;

style 8–23 mm, stigma often exserted beyond anthers at anthesis.

2n

= 14.

Chylismia cardiophylla subsp. cardiophylla

Phenology Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat Rocky walls, sandy alluvial flats, with Ambrosia dumosa, Hyptis emoryi, and Larrea tridentata.
Elevation 0–700 m. (0–2300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; Mexico (Baja California, Sonora)
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Discussion

Subspecies cardiophylla is known from southern San Bernardino County south to eastern San Diego County, California, and Yuma County (and possibly western Pinal County), Arizona, and south in northeastern and central Baja California, Mexico; it is also found on Isla Ángel de la Guarda, Isla San Esteban, Isla San Luis, Isla San Marcos, and Isla San Pedro Mártir in the Gulf of California. Isla San Esteban is the only locality for this subspecies in Sonora.

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

Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Lignothera > Chylismia cardiophylla
Sibling taxa
C. cardiophylla subsp. robusta
Synonyms Oenothera cardiophylla var. petiolaris
Name authority unknown
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