Chylismia heterochroma |
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Shockley's evening-primrose |
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Habit | Herbs annual, glandular puberulent throughout, or glabrate and glaucous distally. |
Stems | several, 10–100 cm. |
Leaves | primarily in poorly defined basal rosette, cauline greatly reduced when present; petiole 0.4–8 cm; blade unlobed, ovate to cordate, 2–11.5 × 1.4–5 cm, margins sinuate-dentate, brown oil cells prominently lining veins abaxially. |
Racemes | erect, elongating in anthesis. |
Flowers | opening at sunrise; buds without free tips; floral tube 2–5 mm, villous inside; sepals 1.5–3.5 mm; petals lavender, paler and often with flecks toward base, often yellow at very base, fading darker lavender, 2–6 mm; stamens unequal, filaments of antisepalous ones 1.8–3 mm, of antipetalous ones 1–2.5 mm, anthers 0.6–1 mm, glabrous or sparsely ciliate; style 4–7 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
Capsules | erect, clavate, 7–13 mm; pedicel 2–5 mm. |
Seeds | 1–1.2 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
Chylismia heterochroma |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Alluvial and rocky slopes. |
Elevation | 600–2200 m. (2000–7200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV
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Discussion | Chylismia heterochroma is known from Churchill and Lander counties, Nevada, south to Lincoln and southern Nye counties, Nevada, to adjacent California (Mono Lake, Mono County, and central Inyo counties). P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-compatible and autogamous. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. |
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia |
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Synonyms | Oenothera heterochromas., Camissonia heterochroma, C. heterochroma var. monoensis, O. heterochroma subsp. monoensis, O. heterochroma var. monoensis |
Name authority | (S. Watson) Small: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 193. (1896) — (as Chylisma) |
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