Clarkia bottae |
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botta's clarkia, punch bowl godetia |
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Stems | erect, to 100 cm, glabrous, glaucous, rarely puberulent. |
Leaves | petiole to 5 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 3–10 cm. |
Inflorescences | open racemes, axis straight in bud; buds pendent. |
Flowers | 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 | 30–40 mm; pedicel 0–30 mm. |
Seeds | brown or gray, 1.2–1.8 mm, ± papillose, crest 0.2 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
Clarkia bottae |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Chaparral, woodlands, coastal scrub. |
Elevation | 0–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | 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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. |
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Fibula |
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Synonyms | Godetia bottae, C. deflexa, G. bottae var. deflexa, G. deflexa |
Name authority | (Spach) H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Madroño 12: 33. (1953) |
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