Clarkia purpurea |
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purple clarkia, winecup clarkia, winecup fairyfan |
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Stems | erect or rarely decumbent, to 100 cm, glabrous and sometimes glaucous or sparsely to densely puberulent, sometimes mixed with longer, spreading hairs. |
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Leaves | petiole 0–2 mm; blade linear or narrowly lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1.5–7 cm. |
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Inflorescences | open or dense racemes, axis straight; buds erect. |
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Flowers | floral tube 2–10 mm; sepals reflexed individually or in pairs; corolla bowl-shaped, petals lavender to purple, purplish red, or dark wine-red, often with red or purple spot near middle, tip, or base, 9–25 mm; stamens 8, subequal; ovary 8-grooved, length less than 8 times width; stigma as long as or exserted beyond anthers. |
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Capsules | 10–30 mm, beak 0–2 mm. |
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Seeds | brown or gray, 1–2 mm, scaly, crest 0.2 mm. |
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Clarkia purpurea |
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Distribution |
w North America; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). Clarkia purpurea consists of a diverse assemblage of hexaploid populations and is almost certainly derived from multiple origins followed by hybridization and, perhaps, backcrossing to parental species. Three morphological forms are recognized as subspecies; intergrades are frequent. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Godetia | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Oenothera purpurea, Godetia purpurea | ||||||||
Name authority | (Curtis) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 65: 64. (1918) | ||||||||
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