Clarkia williamsonii |
Clarkia purpurea |
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Fort miller clarkia, Fort miller clarkia or fairyfan |
purple clarkia, winecup clarkia, winecup fairyfan |
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Stems | erect, to 100 cm, puberulent. |
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 0–10 mm; blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2–7 cm. |
petiole 0–2 mm; blade linear or narrowly lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1.5–7 cm. |
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Inflorescences | open racemes, axis straight; buds erect, mucronate. |
open or dense racemes, axis straight; buds erect. |
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Flowers | floral tube 7–13 mm; sepals reflexed individually or in pairs, tips distinct in bud; corolla bowl-shaped, petals usually lavender, white near middle with purple spot distally, rarely uniformly wine-red, 10–30 mm; stamens 8, subequal; ovary 8-grooved, shorter than adjacent internode; stigma usually exserted beyond anthers. |
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. |
10–30 mm, beak 0–2 mm. |
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Seeds | brown or gray, 1–1.5 mm, scaly, crest 0.1 mm. |
brown or gray, 1–2 mm, scaly, crest 0.2 mm. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Clarkia williamsonii |
Clarkia purpurea |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Sep. | |||||||||
Habitat | Foothill woodlands, yellow-pine forests. | |||||||||
Elevation | 400–2000 m. (1300–6600 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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w North America; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Clarkia williamsonii occurs widely along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada from Nevada to Kern counties, and the Tehachapi Mountains barely to Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties (one collection each). There are unverified reports from Riverside and Shasta counties. Clarkia williamsonii is similar to C. speciosa and some populations of the hexaploid C. purpurea but can be distinguished from the former by petal color pattern and from both by having sepals that have distinctly free tips in bud, a trait most obvious in pressed specimens when the tips tend to spread apart. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Godetia williamsonii | Oenothera purpurea, Godetia purpurea | ||||||||
Name authority | (Durand & Hilgard) H. Lewis & M. E. Lewis: Madroño 12: 34. (1953) | (Curtis) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 65: 64. (1918) | ||||||||
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