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Chylismia claviformis subsp. cruciformis
Photo is of parent taxon

browneyes, cross-flower evening primrose, cruciform evening-primrose
Habit Herbs strigillose or glandular puberulent proximally, glandular puberulent or glabrous distally.
Stems

3–55 cm.
Leaves

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 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.

Chylismia claviformis subsp. cruciformis
Phenology Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat Sandy or clay flats and slopes, with Artemisia tridentata, Ericameria, Grayia spinosa, or Purshia tridentata.
Elevation 600–1500 m. (2000–4900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; NV; OR
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Discussion

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.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia > Chylismia claviformis
Sibling taxa
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 (Kellogg) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007)
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