Clarkia unguiculata |
Clarkia jolonensis |
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elegant clarkia, mountain Garland, woodland clarkia |
Jolon clarkia |
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Stems | erect, 30–100 cm, glabrous, glaucous. |
erect, to 60 cm, glabrous, glaucous. |
Leaves | petiole 0–10 mm; blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1–6 cm. |
petiole to 10 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 3–5 cm. |
Inflorescences | open racemes, sometimes branched, axis erect; buds pendent. |
open racemes, axis straight; buds pendent. |
Flowers | floral tube 2–5 mm; sepals reflexed together to 1 side, green to dark red, sparsely to densely puberulent abaxially, with longer, straight, spreading hairs to 3 mm; corolla rotate, petals lavender-pink to salmon or dark reddish purple, triangular or diamond-shaped to suborbiculate, 10–25 mm, claw slender, equal to or longer than blade, entire, rarely somewhat expanded at base; stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers red, inner smaller, paler; ovary with hairs as on sepals; stigma exserted beyond anthers. |
floral tube 2–3 mm; sepals reflexed together to 1 side; corolla bowl-shaped, petals pale lavender to pinkish lavender, usually red-flecked, unlobed, 10–20 mm; stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers lavender, inner smaller, paler; ovary obscurely 4-grooved; stigma exserted beyond anthers. |
Capsules | 15–30 mm. |
30–40 mm; pedicel 0–10 mm. |
Seeds | brown, 1–1.5 mm, tuberculate, crest inconspicuous. |
dark gray, 1.2–1.4 mm, scaly, crest 0.2 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Clarkia unguiculata |
Clarkia jolonensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Sep. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Woodlands. | Dry woodlands. |
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) | 200–700 m. (700–2300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA |
Discussion | Clarkia unguiculata is a widely distributed species in California, and occurs throughout much of the southern two-thirds of the state in appropriate woodland habitats. Clarkia unguiculata is ancestral to C. exilis, C. springvillensis, and C. tembloriensis. It is one of the parents of the tetraploid species C. delicata and may have been involved in the origin of C. heterandra. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Clarkia jolonensis is known only from Monterey County, mainly in the Outer South Coast Ranges. It is scarcely distinguishable morphologically from C. bottae except for seed color, but attempts to produce hybrids have been unsuccessful. Although in describing C. jolonensis Parnell suggested that its range did not overlap with that of C. bottae, the ranges in fact overlap extensively in Monterey County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Phaeostoma > subsect. Phaeostoma | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Clarkia > sect. Fibula |
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Name authority | Lindley: Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 23: sub plate 1981. (1837) | D. R. Parnell: Madroño 20: 322. (1970) |
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