Clarkia cylindrica |
Clarkia davyi |
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speckled clarkia, speckled fairyfan |
Davy's clarkia, Davy's fairyfan, davyi's clarkia |
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Stems | erect, to 60 cm, puberulent or glabrous. |
prostrate or decumbent, to 90 cm, sparsely puberulent. |
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Leaves | petiole to 5 mm; blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1–6 cm. |
sessile or subsessile; blade oblanceolate to broadly elliptic or obovate, 1–2.5 cm, apex usually obtuse. |
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Inflorescences | open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud; buds pendent. |
open racemes, axis straight; buds erect. |
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Flowers | floral tube 2–7 mm, with ring of hairs proximal to distal margin inside; sepals reflexed together to 1 side; corolla bowl-shaped, petals purple to pinkish lavender shading white near middle, often reddish purple-flecked, base bright purplish red, 10–35 mm; stamens 8, unequal, width of outer filaments about 2 times inner, outer anthers lavender, inner smaller, paler. |
floral tube 2–5 mm; sepals reflexed in pairs or individually; corolla bowl-shaped, petals lavender-pink shading white or pale yellow basally, unspotted, 5–11 mm; stamens 8, subequal; ovary 8-grooved; stigma not exserted beyond anthers. |
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Capsules | 20–50 mm, beak 3–5 mm. |
15–25 mm. |
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Seeds | brown, 1–1.5 mm, minutely scaly to puberulent, crest 0.1 mm. |
brown or gray, 1 mm, scaly, crest inconspicuous. |
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2n | = 34. |
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Clarkia cylindrica |
Clarkia davyi |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | |||||
Habitat | Grasslands, low sea bluffs. | |||||
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
California
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CA
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). As defined by Davis, the subspecies of Clarkia cylindrica have distinct but partly overlapping geographical ranges; subsp. cylindrica mainly in the South Coast and Transverse Ranges to the Tehachapi Mountain area, and subsp. clavicarpa mainly in the central and southern Sierra Nevada Foothills to the Tehachapi Mountain area. More recent collections suggest more substantial geographical overlap. Morphological variation correlates with geographical distribution, with the most consistent difference in ovary and capsule shape. According to Davis, the taxa are moderately interfertile, less so for more distantly separated individuals. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Clarkia davyi is ecologically restricted, mainly growing along the Pacific coast on bluffs and grassy stabilized sand dunes, rarely farther inland. Its range extends from Humboldt and (barely) Del Norte counties in the north through all coastal counties to Santa Barbara County in the south, including Santa Rosa Island. Clarkia davyi is morphologically similar to the polytypic South American tetraploid C. tenella and appears to be one of the parental species of the hexaploid C. prostrata. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Phaeostoma > subsect. Sympherica | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Godetia | ||||
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Synonyms | Godetiabottae spach var. cylindrica | Godetia quadrivulnera var. davyi | ||||
Name authority | (Jepson) H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Madroño 12: 33. (1953) — (as cyclindrica) | (Jepson) H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Madroño 12: 33. (1953) | ||||
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