Clarkia dudleyana |
Clarkia lassenensis |
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Dudley's clarkia |
Lassen clarkia, Lassen clarkia or godetia, Mount Lassen godetia, Mt. Lassen clarkia, Mt. Lassen fairy-fan |
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Stems | erect, to 70 cm, puberulent. |
erect, to 90 cm, puberulent. |
Leaves | petiole 3–10 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–7 cm. |
petiole to 10 mm; blade linear to narrow lanceolate, 2–5 cm. |
Inflorescences | open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud; buds pendent. |
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. |
floral tube 3–5 mm; corolla bowl-shaped, petals pinkish lavender shading lighter proximally, with reddish purple base, broadly obovate, 8–16 mm; stamens 8, subequal; ovary 8-grooved, densely puberulent; stigma not exserted beyond anthers. |
Capsules | 10–30 mm. |
25–40 mm; pedicel 0–3 mm. |
Seeds | brown, 1 mm, minutely scaly to puberulent, crest inconspicuous. |
light brown or mottled with dark spots, 1.5 mm, minutely tuberculate, crest 0.2 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
= 14. |
Clarkia dudleyana |
Clarkia lassenensis |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Openings in woodlands, chaparral, yellow-pine forests, coastal sage. | Woodlands, conifer forests. |
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) | 500–2000 m. (1600–6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; NV; OR
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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 lassenensis is found primarily in the northeastern counties of California, south-central counties of Oregon, and northwestern counties of Nevada, with a few outlier collections from Alpine and Placer counties in the Sierra Nevada, and from northern Mendocino and Glenn counties in the North Coast Ranges. Clarkia lassenensis is morphologically most similar to C. arcuata and C. gracilis. At one time, C. lassenensis was considered a probable parent of the tetraploid C. gracilis but cytogenetic and molecular sequence data indicate that an unknown related species, presumably now extinct, was involved. Clarkia lassenensis can be distinguished readily from C. arcuata by flower size, position of the stigma, and pubescence of the immature capsule, and from C. gracilis by having immature capsules with eight grooves rather than four. (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. Rhodanthos > subsect. Flexicaules |
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Synonyms | Godetia dudleyana | Godetia lassenensis |
Name authority | (Abrams) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 54. (1918) | (Eastwood) H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Madroño 12: 33. (1953) |
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