Clarkia dudleyana |
Clarkia prostrata |
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Dudley's clarkia |
prostrate clarkia |
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Stems | erect, to 70 cm, puberulent. |
prostrate or decumbent, to 50 cm, sparsely puberulent. |
Leaves | petiole 3–10 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–7 cm. |
sessile or subsessile; blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 1–2.5 cm, apex usually obtuse. |
Inflorescences | open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud; buds pendent. |
prostrate, dense racemes, axis straight; buds erect. |
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 4–7 mm; sepals usually reflexed in pairs; corolla bowl-shaped, petals lavender-pink shading pale yellow basally, with reddish purple spot above base, 10–15 mm; stamens 8, subequal; ovary 8-grooved; stigma not exserted beyond anthers. |
Capsules | 10–30 mm. |
20–30 mm. |
Seeds | brown, 1 mm, minutely scaly to puberulent, crest inconspicuous. |
brown or gray, 1–1.5 mm, scaly, crest 0.2 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
= 52. |
Clarkia dudleyana |
Clarkia prostrata |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Openings in woodlands, chaparral, yellow-pine forests, coastal sage. | Coastal bluffs in grasslands and closed-cone pine forests. |
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA |
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 prostrata, like C. davyi, occurs only on coastal bluffs and adjacent low elevation pine forests along the Pacific coast, and in this case only in the California Central Coast Subregion in Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and San Luis Obispo counties. Clarkia prostrata is a hexaploid that combines the tetraploid genome of C. davyi and the diploid genome of C. speciosa. Clarkia prostrata is morphologically and ecologically very similar to C. davyi but can usually be distinguished by its larger flowers with a spot on each petal. It differs from C. speciosa by having smaller flowers with the stigma not exserted beyond the anthers. (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. Godetia |
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Synonyms | Godetia dudleyana | |
Name authority | (Abrams) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 54. (1918) | H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Madroño 12: 36. (1953) |
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