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Brandegee's clarkia

Leaf

blades lanceolate, 5–8 mm wide.

Flowers

corolla bowl-shaped to rotate, petals lavender, broadly fan-shaped, length not greater than 1.5 times width, shallowly 2-lobed, lobes usually less than 1/5 petal length, sometimes obscure.

2n

= 16.

Clarkia biloba subsp. brandegeeae

Clarkia subsect. Lautiflorae

Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Foothill woodlands.
Elevation 0–500 m. (0–1600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Subspecies brandegeeae is known from the northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, from Amador to Butte counties, including El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, and Yuba counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Phaeostoma > subsect. Lautiflorae > Clarkia biloba
Sibling taxa
C. biloba subsp. australis, C. biloba subsp. biloba
Synonyms Godetia dudleyana
Name authority (Jepson) H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 20: 323. (1955) — (as brandegeae)
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