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browneyes

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browneyes, cross-flower evening primrose, cruciform evening-primrose

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

6–55 cm.

3–55 cm.

Leaves

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

blade lateral lobes well developed, few to numerous, terminal lobe narrowly ovate to subcordate, to 8 × to 4 cm, margins serrate-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.

opening at sunrise;

buds without free tips, sometimes with apical free tips less than 1 mm;

floral tube yellow or orange-brown inside, 2–6.5 mm;

petals bright yellow, sometimes red-dotted in proximal 1/2, often fading purple, 2.5–8 mm.

2n

= 14.

= 14.

Chylismia claviformis subsp. claviformis

Chylismia claviformis subsp. cruciformis

Phenology Flowering Mar–May. Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat Alluvial slopes and flats, with Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea. Sandy or clay flats and slopes, with Artemisia tridentata, Ericameria, Grayia spinosa, or Purshia tridentata.
Elevation 800–1700 m. (2600–5600 ft.) 600–1500 m. (2000–4900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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from FNA
CA; ID; NV; OR
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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.)

Subspecies cruciformis is known from Lassen County, California, western Canyon and Owyhee counties, Idaho, Harney, Lake, and Malheur counties, Oregon, and central and southern Washoe County, Nevada. It intergrades with subsp. integrior.

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

Source FNA vol. 10. FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia > Chylismia claviformis 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
C. claviformis subsp. aurantiaca, C. claviformis subsp. claviformis, 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
Synonyms Oenothera cruciformis, Camissonia claviformis subsp. cruciformis, C. claviformis var. cruciformis, Chylisma cruciformis, C. scapoidea var. cruciformis, O. claviformis subsp. citrina, O. claviformis subsp. cruciformis, O. claviformis var. cruciformis
Name authority unknown (Kellogg) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007)
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