Flora of North America species comparison

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Chylismia claviformis subsp. claviformis
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browneyes
Habit Herbs glabrous or strigillose proximally, sometimes also glandular puberulent, usually glabrous distally, rarely very sparsely strigillose or glandular puberulent.
Stems

6–55 cm.
Leaves

blade lateral lobes usually well developed, terminal lobe narrowly ovate, to 6 × 3.5 cm, margins irregularly sinuate-dentate.
Flowers

opening at sunset;

buds with apical free tips less than 1 mm;

floral tube orange-brown inside, 3–5.5 mm;

petals usually white, very rarely pale yellow, sometimes purple-dotted near base, often fading purple, 3.5–8 mm.
2n

= 14.

Chylismia claviformis subsp. claviformis
Phenology Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat Alluvial slopes and flats, with Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea.
Elevation 800–1700 m. (2600–5600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Subspecies claviformis is known from western Inyo, eastern Kern, northern Los Angeles, western San Bernardino, and northern Riverside counties, almost entirely in the Mojave Desert. It intergrades widely and gradually with subspp. aurantiaca and funerea, and hybridizes with Chylismia brevipes subsp. brevipes.

(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 claviformis
Sibling taxa
C. claviformis subsp. aurantiaca, C. claviformis subsp. cruciformis, C. claviformis subsp. funerea, C. claviformis subsp. integrior, C. claviformis subsp. lancifolia, C. claviformis subsp. peeblesii, C. claviformis subsp. peirsonii, C. claviformis subsp. rubescens, C. claviformis subsp. yumae
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