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browneyes, clavate fruit primrose

Habit Herbs strigillose proximally, usually also glandular puberulent distally, or glabrate.
Stems

6–70 cm.

Leaves

blade sometimes purple-dotted, lateral lobes often absent, sometimes present but poorly developed, terminal lobe narrowly ovate to ovate or subcordate, to 7 × 3 cm, margins serrate.

Flowers

opening at sunset;

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

floral tube orange-brown inside, 3–6 mm;

petals white, sometimes purple-dotted near base, fading purple, 4.5–8 mm.

2n

= 14.

Chylismia claviformis subsp. integrior

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Dry flats, with Artemisia tridentata, Ericameria, or Juniperus, on banks and flats.
Elevation 1100–2200 m. (3600–7200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV; OR
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Discussion

Subspecies integrior is known from southern Harney County, Oregon, southward nearly throughout Nevada to Esmeralda and Lincoln counties and to Mono and northeastern Inyo counties, California, and often forms large colonies on banks and flats in Great Basin Desert. It intergrades with subspp. aurantiaca and cruciformis, 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. claviformis, C. claviformis subsp. cruciformis, C. claviformis subsp. funerea, C. claviformis subsp. lancifolia, C. claviformis subsp. peeblesii, C. claviformis subsp. peirsonii, C. claviformis subsp. rubescens, C. claviformis subsp. yumae
Synonyms Oenothera claviformis subsp. integrior, Camissonia claviformis subsp. integrior, C. claviformis var. purpurascens, O. claviformis var. purpurascens, O. scapoidea var. purpurascens
Name authority (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007)
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