Clarkia dudleyana |
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Dudley's clarkia |
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Stems | erect, to 70 cm, puberulent. |
Leaves | petiole 3–10 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–7 cm. |
Inflorescences | open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud; buds pendent. |
Flowers | floral tube 1–3 mm; sepals reflexed together to 1 side; corolla bowl-shaped, petals lavender-pink, usually white-streaked, often red-flecked, broadly fan-shaped, 10–30 mm, apex subentire to crenulate; stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers lavender, inner smaller, paler. |
Capsules | 10–30 mm. |
Seeds | brown, 1 mm, minutely scaly to puberulent, crest inconspicuous. |
2n | = 18. |
Clarkia dudleyana |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Openings in woodlands, chaparral, yellow-pine forests, coastal sage. |
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Clarkia dudleyana is a rather widespread species in California, known primarily from the central and southern Sierra Nevada foothills, the Tehachapi Mountain area, the Transverse Ranges, and the Peninsular Ranges, ranging from Tuolumne to Riverside counties, sporadically in the north to Nevada County and in the south to San Diego County Clarkia dudleyana is morphologically most similar to C. biloba and C. modesta, but molecular data suggest that the relationship is not close. On the basis of chloroplast DNA sequence, C. dudleyana and C. heterandra are closely related. (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 |
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Synonyms | Godetia dudleyana |
Name authority | (Abrams) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 54. (1918) |
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