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browneyes, clavate fruit primrose

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

5–60 cm.

6–70 cm.

Leaves

blade lateral lobes irregular, well developed, terminal lobe narrowly ovate, to 7 × 3 cm, margins irregularly sinuate-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

opening at sunset;

buds without free tips;

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

petals white, often fading purple, 3–7.5 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. peeblesii

Chylismia claviformis subsp. integrior

Phenology Flowering (Dec–)Jan–Apr. Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Flat, sandy plains, washes, with Ambrosia dumosa, Carnegiea gigantea, Larrea tridentata, and Prosopis. Dry flats, with Artemisia tridentata, Ericameria, or Juniperus, on banks and flats.
Elevation 100–700 m. (300–2300 ft.) 1100–2200 m. (3600–7200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Sonora)
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from FNA
CA; NV; OR
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Discussion

Subspecies peeblesii is known throughout almost all the southwestern half of Arizona and locally in northwesternmost Sonora, and was recently collected in Grant and Hildago counties in New Mexico. It intergrades with subspp. aurantiaca and rubescens, and hybridizes with all subspecies of Chylismia brevipes.

(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.
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. funerea, C. claviformis subsp. integrior, C. claviformis subsp. lancifolia, C. claviformis subsp. peirsonii, C. claviformis subsp. rubescens, C. claviformis subsp. yumae
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 var. peeblesii, Camissonia claviformis subsp. peeblesii, O. claviformis subsp. peeblesii Oenothera claviformis subsp. integrior, Camissonia claviformis subsp. integrior, C. claviformis var. purpurascens, O. claviformis var. purpurascens, O. scapoidea var. purpurascens
Name authority (Munz) 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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