Dodecatheon clevelandii |
Dodecatheon ellisiae |
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padre's shootingstar |
Ellis' shootingstar |
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Habit | Plants (7–)10–40 cm; scape glabrous, usually glandular-puberulent apically. | Plants 10–30(–40) cm; scape glabrous. | ||||||||||||
Caudices | not obvious at anthesis; roots tannish; bulblets absent. |
not obvious at anthesis; roots white; 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. |
4–20(–23) × 1.5–4(–6) cm; petiole usually slender (at least basally); blade broadly elliptic to ovate, base slightly decurrent onto stem, abruptly tapering to petiole, margins sinuate to dentate, 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. |
1–6-flowered; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 3–8(–10) mm, glabrous. |
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Pedicels | 2–5 cm, sparsely to moderately glandular-puberulent. |
1.5–4.5(–5.5) 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 mm, lobes 5, 2.5–4 mm; corolla tube yellow with red, thin, wavy ring, lobes 5, usually white, rarely lavender, 13–20 mm; filaments distinct, whitish yellow to yellow, 0.6–1 mm; anthers 6.5–8 mm; pollen sacs purplish to reddish purple or yellow, often streaked with red, connective yellow basally, 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. |
tan to light brown, valvate, narrowly ovoid, 9–13 × 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. |
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Dodecatheon clevelandii |
Dodecatheon ellisiae |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Moist, usually shady slopes in oak and conifer woodlands | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 2400-3100 m (7900-10200 ft) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; nw Mexico
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AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (4 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Dodecatheon ellisiae occurs in two disjunct locations. In north-central New Mexico, it is found in the mountains of Bernalillo, Sandoval, and Torrance counties. In southeastern Arizona, it is known from the mountains of southern Apache (White Mountains), southern Graham (Pinaleno Mountains), Greenlee, and northeastern Santa Rita (Santa Catalina Mountains) counties. On the Graham Mountains in Arizona, the corolla lobes may be lavender. Plants in Arizona and Chihuahua have yellow stamens with some red speckling. It is not known if this is significant taxonomically; it does suggest a shift in pollinators. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 274. | FNA vol. 8, p. 279. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Primulaceae > Dodecatheon | Primulaceae > Dodecatheon | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Primula clevelandii | D. dentatum subsp. ellisiae, D. dentatum var. ellisiae, Primula standleyana | ||||||||||||
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 1: 213. 1888 (as clevelandi), | Standley: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 26: 195. 1913 , | ||||||||||||
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