Dodecatheon clevelandii |
Dodecatheon dentatum |
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padre's shootingstar |
dentate shooting star, tooth American cowslip, white shooting star |
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Habit | Plants (7–)10–40 cm; scape glabrous, usually glandular-puberulent apically. | Plants 15–40(–50) cm; scape glabrous. | ||||||||||||
Caudices | not obvious at anthesis; roots tannish; bulblets absent. |
not obvious at anthesis, or sometimes erect to slightly horizontal, slender; roots white or reddish; 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. |
(3.5–)8–20(–30) × (1–)2.5–6(–7) cm; petiole slightly winged; blade ovate, base decurrent onto stem, abruptly tapering to petiole, margins subentire to sinuate or crenate, surfaces glabrous. |
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Inflorescences | (1–)5–18-flowered; bracts usually narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, 3–22 mm, usually glandular, sometimes glabrous. |
(1–)2–5(–11)-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 1.5–5(–8) mm, glabrous. |
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Pedicels | 2–5 cm, sparsely to moderately glandular-puberulent. |
0.8–5 cm, glabrous. |
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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. |
calyx light green, 4–6 mm, glabrous, tube 2–3.5 mm, lobes 5, 1.5–3(–4) mm; corolla tube yellow with red, thin, wavy ring, lobes 5, white, 7–18(–20) mm; filaments distinct, maroon to black, 0.1–0.5 mm; anthers (4.5–)5–7.5 mm; pollen sacs maroon to black, connective dark purple to maroon, smooth; stigma not enlarged compared to style. |
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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. |
pale greenish to tannish, dark yellow apically, valvate, narrowly ovoid, (6–)8–11 × 3–5 mm, glabrous; walls thin, pliable. |
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Seeds | without membrane along edges. |
without membrane along edges. |
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2n | = 44, 66, 88. |
= 44. |
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Dodecatheon clevelandii |
Dodecatheon dentatum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Moist stream banks, cliff faces and steep slopes mainly in meadows and open oak and/or conifer woodlands | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 60-2600 m (200-8500 ft) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; nw Mexico
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ID; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (4 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Dodecatheon dentatum occurs mainly on the eastern slope of the Cascade Range from south-central British Columbia to central Washington, with disjunct populations near the Columbia River in southwestern Washington, the Columbia River Gorge, northeastern Oregon, and northern Idaho. In Idaho, this species occasionally forms hybrids with D. pulchellum var. pulchellum (Oberle 262, MO). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 274. | FNA vol. 8, p. 278. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Primulaceae > Dodecatheon | Primulaceae > Dodecatheon | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Primula clevelandii | D. latilobum, D. meadia var. latilobum, Primula latiloba | ||||||||||||
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 1: 213. 1888 (as clevelandi), | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 119. 1838 , | ||||||||||||
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