Clarkia amoena |
Clarkia purpurea |
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arewell-to-spring, farewell-to-spring, farewell-to-spring clarkia, godetia, yellow clarkia |
purple clarkia, winecup clarkia, winecup fairyfan |
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Stems | erect to decumbent, 20–200 cm, puberulent. |
erect or rarely decumbent, to 100 cm, glabrous and sometimes glaucous or sparsely to densely puberulent, sometimes mixed with longer, spreading hairs. |
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Leaves | petiole to 10 mm; blade linear to lanceolate, 1–6 cm. |
petiole 0–2 mm; blade linear or narrowly lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1.5–7 cm. |
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Inflorescences | open or dense spikes or racemes, axis straight; buds erect. |
open or dense racemes, axis straight; buds erect. |
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Flowers | floral tube 3–10 mm; sepals usually reflexed together to one side, or rarely in pairs or singly; corolla bowl-shaped, petals pale pink to lavender, usually with red spot or mark near middle, obovate to fan-shaped, 15–60 mm, not lobed, apex sometimes shallowly notched or erose; stamens 8, in 2 subequal sets; ovary cylindrical and 4-grooved or fusiform and 8-grooved, puberulent; stigma exserted or not beyond anthers. |
floral tube 2–10 mm; sepals reflexed individually or in pairs; corolla bowl-shaped, petals lavender to purple, purplish red, or dark wine-red, often with red or purple spot near middle, tip, or base, 9–25 mm; stamens 8, subequal; ovary 8-grooved, length less than 8 times width; stigma as long as or exserted beyond anthers. |
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Capsules | 15–40 mm, sometimes broader distally; pedicel 0–13 mm. |
10–30 mm, beak 0–2 mm. |
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Seeds | brown to grayish brown, 1–1.5 mm, scaly, crest 0.1 mm. |
brown or gray, 1–2 mm, scaly, crest 0.2 mm. |
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Clarkia amoena |
Clarkia purpurea |
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Distribution |
w North America
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w North America; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora). Clarkia amoena is closely related to C. rubicunda, which differs morphologically mainly in the color pattern of the petals. Petals of C. amoena have a conspicuous red spot or group of small red spots or marks near the middle, whereas those of C. rubicunda have a red area at the base and are not spotted near the middle. The areas of distribution of the two species barely overlap in California just north of San Francisco Bay, and C. rubicunda could be considered a southern geographical race or subspecies of C. amoena were it not that their readily formed hybrids are sterile due to chromosomal rearrangement. Clarkia amoena is one of the parent species of the allotetraploid C. gracilis. Intermediates between subspecies are frequent. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). Clarkia purpurea consists of a diverse assemblage of hexaploid populations and is almost certainly derived from multiple origins followed by hybridization and, perhaps, backcrossing to parental species. Three morphological forms are recognized as subspecies; intergrades are frequent. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Rhodanthos > subsect. Primigenia | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Godetia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Oenothera amoena, Godetia amoena | Oenothera purpurea, Godetia purpurea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (Lehmann) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 65: 62. (1918) | (Curtis) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 65: 64. (1918) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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