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Clarkia sect. Eucharidium
Inflorescences

axis suberect or slightly recurved;

buds pendent.
Flowers

floral tube narrowly tubular, 13–35 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side;

petals pink, sometimes white-streaked, fan-shaped, conspicuously 3-lobed, middle lobe often longer than laterals, claw slender, not lobed;

stamens 4.
Capsules

subterete;

sessile or subsessile.

Clarkia sect. Eucharidium
Distribution
California
Discussion

Species 2 (2 in the flora).

Section Eucharidium includes two species characterized by large tri-lobed petals, four rather than eight stamens, and a long floral tube that adapts them to pollination by long-tongued Lepidoptera or Diptera (G. A. Allen et al. 1990).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms Eucharidium, C. subg. eucharidium
Name authority (Fischer & C. A. Meyer) H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 20: 359. (1955)
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