Chylismia claviformis subsp. funerea |
Chylismia claviformis subsp. cruciformis |
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clavate fruit primrose |
browneyes, cross-flower evening primrose, cruciform evening-primrose |
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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 |
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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 |
CA |
CA; ID; NV; OR |
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. |
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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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