Clarkia mildrediae |
Clarkia gracilis |
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Mildred's clarkia |
graceful clarkia, slender clarkia, slender godetia |
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Stems | erect, to 100 cm, puberulent. |
erect, to 90 cm, glabrous or puberulent. |
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Leaves | petiole 15–40 mm; blade elliptic to ovate, 3–6 cm. |
petiole to 11 mm; blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2–7 cm. |
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Inflorescences | open racemes, axis recurved in bud, straight only 1–3 nodes distal to open flowers; buds pendent, tip acute. |
racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud; buds pendent. |
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Flowers | floral tube 2–3 mm; sepals usually reflexed individually; corolla rotate, petals reddish purple, often darker flecked or spotted, narrowly obdeltate to suborbiculate, unlobed, 11–25 × 7–18 mm, length 1.4–1.6 times width; stamens 8, subequal, subtended by ciliate scales, anthers magenta or orange-red to yellow, pollen blue-gray or bright yellow to tan; ovary shallowly 4-grooved, puberulent; stigma exserted beyond anthers. |
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. |
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Capsules | 20–30 mm; pedicel 0–5 mm. |
25–50 mm, usually wider distally; pedicel 0–10 mm. |
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Seeds | brown or gray, 1.5–1.8 mm, scaly-echinate, crest 0.1 mm. |
brown or mottled with dark spots, 1.5–2 mm, scaly, crest 0.1 mm. |
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Clarkia mildrediae |
Clarkia gracilis |
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Distribution |
California
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w United States
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Clarkia mildrediae is closely related to, and may be derived from, C. borealis. Clarkia mildrediae subsp. lutescens is probably the direct ancestor of C. stellata. Clarkia mildrediae differs from C. borealis in petal color and inflorescence habit and from C. stellata in flower size and position of the stigma. On the basis of morphology, chromosome number and pairing, C. mildrediae appears to be one of the parents of the tetraploid species C. rhomboidea. (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.) |
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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. Myxocarpa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Rhodanthos > subsect. Jugales | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Phaeostoma mildrediae | Godetia gracilis, G. amoena var. gracilis | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (A. Heller) H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Madroño 12: 34. (1953) | (Piper) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 65: 63. (1918) | ||||||||||||||||
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