Clarkia dudleyana
Clarkia gracilis
Dudley's clarkia
graceful clarkia, slender clarkia, slender godetia
erect, to 70 cm, puberulent.
erect, to 90 cm, glabrous or puberulent.
petiole 3–10 mm;
blade narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–7 cm.
petiole to 11 mm;
blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2–7 cm.
open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud;
buds pendent.
racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud;
buds pendent.
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 1.5–10 mm;
corolla bowl-shaped, petals pink to lavender or light purple, often lighter toward base, unspotted or with red spot near middle or base, obovate or obdeltate, 6–40 mm;
stamens 8, subequal;
ovary 4-grooved, puberulent;
stigma exserted or not beyond anthers.
10–30 mm.
25–50 mm, usually wider distally;
pedicel 0–10 mm.
brown, 1 mm, minutely scaly to puberulent, crest inconspicuous.
brown or mottled with dark spots, 1.5–2 mm, scaly, crest 0.1 mm.
= 18.
Clarkia dudleyana
Clarkia gracilis
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.)
Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora).
Clarkia gracilis is a tetraploid derived from C. amoena and an unknown, presumably extinct, species related to C. arcuata and C. lassenensis. Clarkia gracilis is readily distinguished from C. amoena by the axis of the inflorescence in bud, which is not recurved in C. amoena; it is distinguished from C. arcuata and C. lassenensis by its four rather than eight-grooved ovary.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Stigmas not exserted beyond anthers; petals 6–23 mm. | subsp. gracilis |
1. Stigmas exserted beyond anthers; petals20–40 mm. | → 2 |
2. Petals with red spot near mid blade, base of blades white. | subsp. sonomensis |
2. Petals unspotted, base of blades red or bright red. | → 3 |
3. Petals 20–30 mm. | subsp. tracyi |
3. Petals 30–40 mm. | subsp. albicaulis |
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