Clarkia dudleyana |
Clarkia delicata |
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Dudley's clarkia |
campo clarkia, delicate clarkia |
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Stems | erect, to 70 cm, puberulent. |
erect, 20–70 cm, glabrous and glaucous distally, usually puberulent basally. |
Leaves | petiole 3–10 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–7 cm. |
petiole to 10 mm; blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1.5–4 cm. |
Inflorescences | open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud; buds pendent. |
open racemes, sometimes branched, axis straight; 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. |
floral tube 2 mm; sepals reflexed together to 1 side; corolla rotate, petals oblanceolate to obovate, 8–12 mm, claw tapered, shorter than blade, apex entire; stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers orange-red, inner smaller, paler. |
Capsules | 10–30 mm. |
15–35 mm; subsessile. |
Seeds | brown, 1 mm, minutely scaly to puberulent, crest inconspicuous. |
brown, 1–1.5 mm, tuberculate (especially on raphe), crest inconspicuous. |
2n | = 18. |
= 36. |
Clarkia dudleyana |
Clarkia delicata |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Openings in woodlands, chaparral, yellow-pine forests, coastal sage. | Oak woodlands, chaparral. |
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) | 0–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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.) |
Clarkia delicata is known in California only from the Peninsular Ranges, mainly in San Diego County with outliers in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and in northern Baja California, Mexico. Because of its limited range, it is listed as rare by the California Native Plant Society. It is a tetraploid derived from hybridization between C. epilobioides and C. unguiculata. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Phaeostoma > subsect. Lautiflorae | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Phaeostoma > subsect. Connubium |
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Synonyms | Godetia dudleyana | Godetia delicata |
Name authority | (Abrams) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 54. (1918) | (Abrams) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 65: 60. (1905) |
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