Clarkia dudleyana |
Clarkia stellata |
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Dudley's clarkia |
Lake Almanor clarkia, lake amador clarkia |
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Stems | erect, to 70 cm, puberulent. |
erect, to 100 cm, puberulent. |
Leaves | petiole 3–10 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–7 cm. |
petiole 5–30 mm; blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1–5 cm. |
Inflorescences | open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud; buds pendent. |
open racemes, axis in bud recurved 1–3 nodes distal to open flowers; buds pendent, narrowly obovoid, tip acute. |
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 1.5–2 mm; sepals reflexed individually; corolla rotate, petals lavender-purple, not dark-flecked or spotted, obovate, 6–8 × 3–5 mm, inconspicuously 3-lobed; stamens 8, subequal, subtended by ciliate scales, pollen yellow; ovary shallowly 4-grooved, puberulent; stigma not exserted beyond anthers. |
Capsules | 10–30 mm. |
20–25 mm; pedicel 1–3 mm. |
Seeds | brown, 1 mm, minutely scaly to puberulent, crest inconspicuous. |
unknown. |
2n | = 18. |
= 14. |
Clarkia dudleyana |
Clarkia stellata |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Openings in woodlands, chaparral, yellow-pine forests, coastal sage. | Open coniferous forests. |
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) | 1000–1500 m. (3300–4900 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 stellata is known from the southern Cascade–northern Sierra Nevada region, including Lassen, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, and Tehama counties (with unverified reports from Butte and Modoc counties). Clarkia stellata is probably a self-pollinating derivative of C. mildrediae subsp. lutescens, to judge from pollen color. The two species are readily distinguishedby the much smaller flowers of C. stellata and the position of the stigma. Hybrids have low fertility due to chromosomal rearrangement. Clarkia stellata is morphologically very similar to the self-pollinating tetraploid C. rhomboidea but can be distinguished from it by yellow pollen and shallowly lobed, unspotted petals. (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. Myxocarpa |
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Synonyms | Godetia dudleyana | |
Name authority | (Abrams) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 54. (1918) | Mosquin: Leafl. W. Bot. 9: 215. (1962) |
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