Chylismia munzii |
Chylismia multijuga |
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Munz's evening primrose |
froststem suncup |
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Habit | Herbs annual, strigillose, often densely so. | Herbs annual or biennial, villous, at least proximally, glabrous or even glaucous distally, rarely glandular puberulent. |
Stems | several, 8–50 cm. |
virgate with numerous divergent branches, 20–150 cm. |
Leaves | primarily in basal rosette and also cauline, 1.5–20 × 0.5–3 cm; petiole 0.5–5 cm; blade pinnately lobed, terminal lobe ovate to narrowly ovate, 1.3–6 × 0.6–3 cm, margins denticulate, brownish oil cells lining veins abaxially. |
primarily in well-developed basal rosette, cauline reduced or absent, 6–30 × 1.4–6.5 cm; petiole 0.3–6 cm; blade pinnately or bipinnately lobed, terminal lobe ovate to elliptic, 2.5–6.5 × 1.5–3 cm, margins irregularly serrate, dark brown oil cells prominently lining veins abaxially. |
Racemes | nodding, not congested, elongating in mature bud. |
erect to nodding, elongating in bud. |
Flowers | opening at sunrise; buds with or without subapical free tips; floral tube orange-brown inside, 2–3 mm, villous inside; sepals 4–7 mm; petals bright yellow, with red dots near base, fading pale yellow or yellowish orange, 3–10 mm; stamens subequal, filaments 4–8 mm, anthers 3–6 mm, ciliate; style 8–18 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
opening at sunrise; buds individually reflexed, with apical or slightly subapical free tips less than 1 mm; floral tube 1–3 mm, glabrous or villous inside proximally; sepals 3–8 mm; petals usually bright yellow, rarely cream, fading yellow to lavender, 4–9 mm; stamens unequal, filaments of antisepalous stamens 2.5–4 mm, those of antipetalous ones 1.3–3 mm, anthers 2–4 mm, ciliate; style 7–11 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
Capsules | widely spreading, becoming sharply reflexed, clavate, 8–24 mm; pedicel 8–28 mm. |
usually spreading, rarely slightly reflexed, oblong-cylindrical, 10–52 mm; pedicel 7–20 mm. |
Seeds | 0.8–1.6 mm. |
1–1.3 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Chylismia munzii |
Chylismia multijuga |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun. | Flowering Mar–Jun(–Sep). |
Habitat | Mesic slopes, washes. | Forming colonies on rocky slopes and banks of eroded sedimentaries, on gypsum or limestone, on conglomerates, often with Juniperus and Pinus edulis, with Encelia farinosa and Larrea. |
Elevation | 600–1600 m. (2000–5200 ft.) | 300–1100 m. (1000–3600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV |
AZ; NV; UT
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Discussion | Chylismia munzii is known from middle elevations in the mountains at the north end, eastward from, and south of Death Valley, from Saline Valley and the Grapevine Mountains, Inyo County, California, and Yucca Flat, Nye County, Nevada, southward to the Kingston Range, San Bernardino County, California.P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-incompatible. It sometimes hybridizes with C. brevipes subsp. brevipes and C. claviformis subsp. aurantiaca. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Chylismia multijuga is known from Washington County, Utah, and southern Lincoln County, Nevada, to northern Mohave County, Arizona. P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-incompatible. It hybridizes with C. brevipes subspp. brevipes and pallidula. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
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Synonyms | Oenothera munzii, Camissonia munzii | Oenothera multijuga, Camissonia multijuga, Chylisma hirta, C. parviflora, C. venosa, O. brevipes var. multijuga, O. brevipes var. parviflora, O. multijuga var. parviflora, O. phlebophylla, O. watsonii |
Name authority | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 207. (2007) | (S. Watson) Small: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 193. (1896) — (as Chylisma) |
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