Dodecatheon clevelandii |
Dodecatheon utahense |
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padre's shootingstar |
Wasatch shootingstar |
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Habit | Plants (7–)10–40 cm; scape glabrous, usually glandular-puberulent apically. | Plants (8–)10–25(–30) cm; scape glabrous. | ||||||||||||
Caudices | not obvious at anthesis; roots tannish; bulblets absent. |
not obvious at anthesis; roots whitish; 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. |
4–12(–20) × (1–)1.5–4(–4.5) cm; petiole slender (at least basally); blade oblanceolate to broadly elliptic, base slightly decurrent onto stem in some, abruptly tapering to petiole, margins slightly sinuate to subentire, 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. |
2–6(–9)-flowered; bracts linear to narrowly lanceolate, 4–8(–10) mm, glabrous. |
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Pedicels | 2–5 cm, sparsely to moderately glandular-puberulent. |
(0.5–)0.8–3.5(–4.5) 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 green, speckled with maroon, 3–6 mm, glabrous, tube 1–3 mm, lobes 5, 2–3 mm; corolla tube white or yellowish with reddish to maroon, thin, wavy ring, lobes 5, pale lavender to pink, (7–)10–16 mm; filaments slightly connate, tube yellow with maroon speckles or stripes to purplish maroon, 0.5–1.8 × 0.5–1 mm; anthers (5–)6–7.5 mm; pollen sacs maroon, 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. |
light green to tan, often speckled with maroon, reddish brown apically, valvate, narrowly ovoid, 8–10 × 3–4 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 utahense |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Moist, shady limestone cliffs in open conifer woodlands | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 2100-2900 m (6900-9500 ft) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (4 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Dodecatheon utahense is known only from from both sides of the road at Moss Ledge in Big Cottonwood Canyon and from the Lake Blance area, Salt Lake County. The plants can have a narrow caudex to which long trailing leaves and roots are attached, the plants often hanging from steep canyon walls. Other plants tend to occur in the cracks of the rocks on a compact caudex; these plants usually are upright and tend to be much shorter (to 20 cm) compared to the hanging plants. (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 var. utahense, D. dentatum subsp. utahense, Primula utahensis | ||||||||||||
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 1: 213. 1888 (as clevelandi), | (N. H. Holmgren) Reveal: Sida 22: 864. 2006 , | ||||||||||||
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