Dodecatheon clevelandii |
Dodecatheon clevelandii var. insulare |
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padre's shootingstar |
island shootingstar, padre's shootingstar |
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Habit | Plants (7–)10–40 cm; scape glabrous, usually glandular-puberulent apically. | |||||||||||||
Caudices | not obvious at anthesis; roots tannish; bulblets absent. |
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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. |
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Inflorescences | (1–)5–18-flowered; bracts usually narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, 3–22 mm, usually glandular, sometimes glabrous. |
5–9-flowered. |
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Pedicels | 2–5 cm, sparsely to moderately glandular-puberulent. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Seeds | without membrane along edges. |
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2n | = 44, 66, 88. |
= 44. |
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Dodecatheon clevelandii |
Dodecatheon clevelandii var. insulare |
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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 |
CA; nw Mexico
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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.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 274. | FNA vol. 8, p. 275. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Primulaceae > Dodecatheon | Primulaceae > Dodecatheon > Dodecatheon clevelandii | ||||||||||||
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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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