Clarkia speciosa
Clarkia lewisii
red spotted clarkia, red spotted or redspot clarkia, redspot clarkia
Lewis' clarkia
erect or decumbent, to 60 cm, puberulent.
erect, to 50 cm, puberulent to glabrate.
petiole 0–5 mm;
blade linear to lanceolate, 1–6 cm.
petiole to 7 mm;
blade narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 2–5 cm.
open or dense racemes or panicles, axis straight;
buds erect.
open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud;
buds pendent.
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.
floral tube 1.5–4 mm, with ring of hairs at distal margin inside;
sepals reflexed together to 1 side;
corolla bowl-shaped, petals pinkish lavender shading white near middle, base purplish red or with red line, sometimes reddish purple-flecked, 10–30 mm;
stamens 8, unequal, width of all filaments subequal or inner slightly thinner, outer anthers lavender, inner smaller, paler.
15–20 mm.
15–70 mm, beak 0–3 mm.
brown or gray, 0.7–1 mm, scaly, crest 0.1 mm.
brown, 1 mm, scaly to puberulent, crest inconspicuous.
= 18.
Clarkia speciosa
Clarkia lewisii
Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Clarkia lewisii is known primarily from Monterey County, sparsely in San Benito County, barely reaching Santa Clara County, and is listed as rare by the California Native Plant Society. It is most closely related and morphologically similar to C. cylindrica, from which it can be distinguished by having all filaments about equally wide and a ring of hairs at the rim of the floral tube; outer filaments of C. cylindrica are two times as wide as the inner ones, and the ring of hairs is within the tube below the rim. Clarkia lewisii is also closely related to C. rostrata, from which it differs conspicuously by having a much shorter capsule beak.
Clarkia lewisii is a new name applied to the species known until 1978 as C. bottae, following examination and reinterpretation of the type of Godetia bottae Spach by P. H. Raven and D. R. Parnell (1978). They determined that the type specimens of G. bottae actually referred to the species then known as C. deflexa (Jepson) H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis, and reapplied the name C. bottae to that species in sect. Fibula.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Petals without red or purplish red spot. | → 2 |
2. Stems erect to decumbent; petals dark purplish red to lavender, ± white or pale yellow near base, rarely pale yellow throughout. | subsp. speciosa |
2. Stems decumbent; petals lavender to pink shading pale yellow or white in proximal 1/2. | subsp. immaculata |
1. Petals with bright red or purplish red spot near or proximal to middle. | → 3 |
3. Inflorescences dense racemes. | subsp. nitens |
3. Inflorescences open racemes or panicles. | → 4 |
4. Petals usually with bright red spot; branches on well-developed plants many, few-flowered. | subsp. speciosa |
4. Petals with purplish red spot; branches on well-developed plants virgate, few, many- flowered. | subsp. polyantha |
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