Clarkia borealis |
Clarkia bottae |
|||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
northern clarkia |
botta's clarkia, punch bowl godetia |
|||||
Stems | erect, to 100 cm, puberulent. |
erect, to 100 cm, glabrous, glaucous, rarely puberulent. |
||||
Leaves | petiole 15–40 mm; blade elliptic to ovate, 2–6 cm. |
petiole to 5 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 3–10 cm. |
||||
Inflorescences | open racemes, axis recurved only at tip in bud, straight 4+ nodes distal to open flowers; buds pendent, fusiform, base slightly swollen, tip acute. |
open racemes, axis straight in bud; buds pendent. |
||||
Flowers | floral tube 2–4 mm; sepals reflexed individually; corolla rotate, petals lavender-pink, often dark-flecked, obdeltate to suborbiculate, unlobed, 13–19 ×7–12 mm, length 1.6–2 times width; stamens 8, subequal, subtended by ciliate scales, pollen blue-gray; ovary shallowly 4-grooved, puberulent; stigma exserted beyond anthers. |
floral tube 2–3 mm; sepals reflexed together to 1 side; corolla bowl-shaped, petals pale lavender to pinkish lavender, often white toward base, usually red-flecked, unlobed, 15–30 mm; stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers lavender, inner smaller, paler; ovary obscurely 4-grooved; stigma exserted beyond anthers. |
||||
Capsules | 20–30 mm; pedicel 0–3 mm. |
30–40 mm; pedicel 0–30 mm. |
||||
Seeds | light brown or mottled with dark spots, 1.5–2.5 mm, minutely tuberculate, crest 0.2 mm. |
brown or gray, 1.2–1.8 mm, ± papillose, crest 0.2 mm. |
||||
2n | = 18. |
|||||
Clarkia borealis |
Clarkia bottae |
|||||
Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | |||||
Habitat | Chaparral, woodlands, coastal scrub. | |||||
Elevation | 0–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
California |
CA
|
||||
Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Clarkia borealis is closely related, and possibly ancestral, to C. mildrediae. The two species can be distinguished most readily by the degree of curvature of the inflorescence and the petal color. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Clarkia bottae is known from the Outer South Coast Ranges from Monterey and San Benito to Santa Barbara counties, throughout southwestern California, and more sporadically in the southern Sierra Nevada in Fresno and Kern counties. Reports from Del Norte, Madera, and Napa counties have not been verified. Clarkia bottae is most closely related to C. jolonensis and may be closely related to C. xantiana; all three have 2n = 18, and spontaneous hybrids were formed when C. bottae was grown adjacent to a natural population of C. xantiana. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
||||
Key |
|
|||||
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||
Parent taxa | ||||||
Sibling taxa | ||||||
Subordinate taxa | ||||||
Synonyms | Godetia bottae, C. deflexa, G. bottae var. deflexa, G. deflexa | |||||
Name authority | E. Small: Canad. J. Bot. 49: 1215, figs. 2B, 3A,B. (1971) | (Spach) H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Madroño 12: 33. (1953) | ||||
Web links |