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padre's shootingstar

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island shootingstar, padre's shootingstar

Habit Plants (7–)10–40 cm; scape glabrous, usually glandular-puberulent apically.
Caudices

not obvious at anthesis;

roots tannish;

bulblets absent.

Leaves

(1–)3–18(–20) × 0.5–4(–5) cm;

petiole usually slender;

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, base usually not decurrent onto stem, narrowing abruptly to petiole, margins usually entire, rarely finely denticulate, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes with sessile glands.

Inflorescences

(1–)5–18-flowered;

bracts usually narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, 3–22 mm, usually glandular, sometimes glabrous.

5–9-flowered.

Pedicels

2–5 cm, sparsely to moderately glandular-puberulent.

Flowers

calyx light greenish, 5.5–8.5 mm, glandular-pubescent abaxially, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, lobes 5, 3–6 mm;

corolla tube yellow with dark maroon, thick, often wavy ring, lobes 5, magenta or white, 6–25(–30) mm;

filaments connate, tube yellow or dark maroon to black, 2.5–4 × 3–4 mm;

anthers 3–5 mm;

pollen sacs yellow or dark purple, connective yellow or maroon to black, transversely rugose;

stigma not enlarged compared to style.

filament tube without yellow or white spot proximal to each anther;

pollen sacs yellow with maroon speckles;

connective maroon to black.

Capsules

yellowish or reddish tan, often suffused with purple, valvate or operculate, cylindric-ovoid, 8–16 × 4–7 mm, glabrous or glandular-puberulent;

walls thin, pliable.

Seeds

without membrane along edges.

2n

= 44, 66, 88.

= 44.

Dodecatheon clevelandii

Dodecatheon clevelandii var. insulare

Phenology Flowering late winter–spring.
Habitat Dry slopes and flats in coastal scrub communities and mainly oak and conifer woodlands
Elevation 0-800 m (0-2600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; nw Mexico
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from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Varieties 4 (4 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Of conservation concern.

Variety insulare is confined mainly to low mountains from Monterey County to Santa Barbara County and on the Channel Islands. In northwestern Mexico, it is disjunct to the immediate coast and off-shore islands near Ensenada, and on Guadalupe Island; on the islands the leaves can be up to 5.5 cm wide.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Connectives yellow; filament tubes without yellow or white spot proximal to each anther.
var. clevelandii
1. Connectives maroon to black; filament tubes with or without yellow or white spot proximal to each anther
→ 2
2. Filament tubes without yellow or white spot proximal to each anther.
var. insulare
2. Filament tubes with yellow or white spot proximal to each anther
→ 3
3. Pollen sacs usually yellow.
var. gracile
3. Pollen sacs usually dark purple.
var. patulum
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 274. FNA vol. 8, p. 275.
Parent taxa Primulaceae > Dodecatheon Primulaceae > Dodecatheon > Dodecatheon clevelandii
Sibling taxa
D. alpinum, D. amethystinum, D. austrofrigidum, D. conjugens, D. dentatum, D. ellisiae, D. frenchii, D. frigidum, D. hendersonii, D. jeffreyi, D. meadia, D. poeticum, D. pulchellum, D. redolens, D. subalpinum, D. utahense
D. clevelandii var. clevelandii, D. clevelandii var. gracile, D. clevelandii var. patulum
Subordinate taxa
D. clevelandii var. clevelandii, D. clevelandii var. gracile, D. clevelandii var. insulare, D. clevelandii var. patulum
Synonyms Primula clevelandii D. clevelandii subsp. insulare, Primula clevelandii var. insularis
Name authority Greene: Pittonia 1: 213. 1888 (as clevelandi), (H. J. Thompson) Reveal: Sida 22: 863. 2006 ,
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