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clavate fruit primrose

Habit Herbs strigillose proximally, glabrous and often glaucous distally.
Stems

5–60 cm.

Leaves

blade lateral lobes usually poorly developed or absent, terminal lobe lanceolate, to 5 × 2.8 cm, margins irregularly serrate-dentate.

Flowers

usually opening at sunset;

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

floral tube orange-brown inside, 3.5–6 mm;

petals bright yellow, sometimes red-dotted in proximal 1/2, fading pale orange, 3.5–7 mm.

2n

= 14.

Chylismia claviformis subsp. lancifolia

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Sandy slopes and flats, often with Artemisia tridentata or Ericameria.
Elevation 600–1700(–1900) m. (2000–5600(–6200) ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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Discussion

Subspecies lancifolia is known from east of the Sierra Nevada in southern Mono and Inyo counties, California, and adjacent Mineral County, Nevada.

(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. integrior, C. claviformis subsp. peeblesii, C. claviformis subsp. peirsonii, C. claviformis subsp. rubescens, C. claviformis subsp. yumae
Synonyms C. lancifolia, Camissonia claviformis subsp. lancifolia, C. claviformis var. lancifolia, Oenothera claviformis subsp. lancifolia
Name authority (A. Heller) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007)
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