Clarkia speciosa subsp. immaculata |
Clarkia speciosa |
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pismo clarki, pismo clarkia |
red spotted clarkia, red spotted or redspot clarkia, redspot clarkia |
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Stems | decumbent, branches on well-developed plants few-flowered. |
erect or decumbent, to 60 cm, puberulent. |
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Leaves | blades linear to narrowly lanceolate. |
petiole 0–5 mm; blade linear to lanceolate, 1–6 cm. |
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Inflorescences | open or dense racemes or panicles, axis straight; buds erect. |
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Flowers | floral tube 5–15 mm; sepals usually reflexed individually or in pairs, or rarely together to one side, tips not distinct in bud; corolla bowl-shaped, petals lavender to wine-red, often shading white or pale yellow toward base, unspotted or with bright red or purplish red spot near or proximal to middle, 10–25 mm; stamens 8, subequal; ovary 8-grooved; stigma exserted beyond anthers. |
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Capsules | 15–20 mm. |
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Seeds | brown or gray, 0.7–1 mm, scaly, crest 0.1 mm. |
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Inflores | -cences open racemes. |
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Petals | lavender to pink shading pale yellow or white in proximal 1/2, unspotted. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Clarkia speciosa subsp. immaculata |
Clarkia speciosa |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Sandy hills near coast. | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA |
California
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Discussion | Subspecies immaculata, known only from a small portion of San Luis Obispo County, is designated as rare by the California Native Plant Society. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Oenothera viminea var. parviflora, Godetia parviflora | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 20: 291. (1955) | H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Madroño 12: 34. (1953) | ||||||||||||||||
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