Clarkia dudleyana |
Clarkia xantiana |
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Dudley's clarkia |
gunsight clarkia, Xantus' clarkia |
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Stems | erect, to 70 cm, puberulent. |
erect, to 80 cm, glabrous, glaucous. |
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Leaves | petiole 3–10 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–7 cm. |
petiole 0–2 mm; blade linear to lanceolate, 2–6 cm. |
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Inflorescences | open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud; buds pendent. |
open racemes, axis straight; buds pendent. |
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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 2–5 mm; sepals reflexed together to 1 side; corolla rotate, petals lavender to reddish purple, lavender-pink, or white, often with white-surrounded dark reddish purple spot distally, clawed, 2-lobed, with slender central tooth, 1–3 mm, 6–20 mm; stamens 8, in 2 unequal sets, outer anthers lavender to purple, inner smaller, paler; ovary 8-grooved; stigma exserted or not beyond anthers. |
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Capsules | 10–30 mm. |
15–25 mm; pedicel 0–5 mm. |
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Seeds | brown, 1 mm, minutely scaly to puberulent, crest inconspicuous. |
brown, 1.3–1.5 mm, tuberculate, crest minute. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Clarkia dudleyana |
Clarkia xantiana |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | |||||
Habitat | Openings in woodlands, chaparral, yellow-pine forests, coastal sage. | |||||
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA
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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.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Originally placed in the group now delimited as subsect. Phaeostoma by H. Lewis and M. E. Lewis (1955), Clarkia xantiana was treated as a monotypic subsect. Xantianae within sect. Phaeostoma by K. E. Holsinger (1985), based mainly on its unusual 2-lobed petals with a tooth in the sinus. Molecular data (R. A. Levin et al. 2004) placed C. xantiana close to C. bottae, and both of them close to but not within sect. Phaeostoma. Both species share the chromosome number 2n = 18 with C. jolonensis. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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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. Fibula | ||||
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Synonyms | Godetia dudleyana | |||||
Name authority | (Abrams) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 54. (1918) | A. Gray: Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 7: 146. (1859) | ||||
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