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clavate fruit primrose

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

Habit Herbs strigillose proximally, often densely so. Herbs strigillose or glandular puberulent proximally, glandular puberulent or glabrous distally.
Stems

6–60 cm.

3–55 cm.

Leaves

blade lateral lobes usually present, but often poorly developed, sometimes absent, terminal lobe ovate to cordate, to 8 × 4.5 cm, margins 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 usually with conspicuous, subapical free tips;

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

petals white, often fading purple, 3.5–7.5 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. funerea

Chylismia claviformis subsp. cruciformis

Phenology Flowering Feb–May. Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat Dry slopes, flats, with Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea tridentata. Sandy or clay flats and slopes, with Artemisia tridentata, Ericameria, Grayia spinosa, or Purshia tridentata.
Elevation -80–900 m. (-300–3000 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 funerea is known from Eureka and Saline valleys, and the region of Death Valley, Inyo County, and northernmost San Bernardino County. It intergrades with subspp. aurantiaca and claviformis; sometimes it hybridizes with Chylismia brevipes subsp. brevipes and C. munzii.

(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. claviformis, C. claviformis subsp. cruciformis, 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 claviformis subsp. funerea, Camissonia claviformis subsp. funerea, C. claviformis var. funerea 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 (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007) (Kellogg) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007)
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