Chylismia claviformis subsp. lancifolia |
Chylismia claviformis subsp. integrior |
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clavate fruit primrose |
browneyes, clavate fruit primrose |
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Habit | Herbs strigillose proximally, glabrous and often glaucous distally. | Herbs strigillose proximally, usually also glandular puberulent distally, or glabrate. |
Stems | 5–60 cm. |
6–70 cm. |
Leaves | blade lateral lobes usually poorly developed or absent, terminal lobe lanceolate, to 5 × 2.8 cm, margins irregularly serrate-dentate. |
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 | 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. |
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. |
= 14. |
Chylismia claviformis subsp. lancifolia |
Chylismia claviformis subsp. integrior |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Sandy slopes and flats, often with Artemisia tridentata or Ericameria. | Dry flats, with Artemisia tridentata, Ericameria, or Juniperus, on banks and flats. |
Elevation | 600–1700(–1900) m. (2000–5600(–6200) ft.) | 1100–2200 m. (3600–7200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV |
CA; NV; OR |
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.) |
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. | FNA vol. 10. |
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Synonyms | C. lancifolia, Camissonia claviformis subsp. lancifolia, C. claviformis var. lancifolia, Oenothera claviformis subsp. lancifolia | Oenothera claviformis subsp. integrior, Camissonia claviformis subsp. integrior, C. claviformis var. purpurascens, O. claviformis var. purpurascens, O. scapoidea var. purpurascens |
Name authority | (A. Heller) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007) | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007) |
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