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alyssum like evening primrose, pine creek evening-primrose

Habit Herbs usually strigillose, often densely so, especially in inflorescence, rarely villous and/or glandular puberulent.
Stems

3–35 cm.

Leaves

not especially clustered toward base, mostly evenly distributed, 1–5.5(–7.5) × 0.3–1.6 cm;

petiole 0–6 cm;

blade very narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate or ovate, margins sparsely denticulate.

Inflorescences

± open.

Flowers

floral tube 3–8 mm;

petals white, 4–5 mm.

Capsules

usually very contorted, 1–1.5 mm diam. near base.

Seeds

monomorphic.

Eremothera boothii subsp. alyssoides

Phenology Flowering May–Jun(–Aug).
Habitat Sandy slopes and flats, sagebrush, shadscale, rabbitbrush shrublands or pinyon-juniper woodlands.
Elevation 600–2000 m. (2000–6600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; NV; OR; UT
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Discussion

Subspecies alyssoides intergrades broadly with subsp. intermedia in Nevada and is very similar to subsp. desertorum. Sphaerostigma alyssoides var. macrophyllum Small is an illegitimate name that applies here.

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

Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Eremothera > Eremothera boothii
Sibling taxa
E. boothii subsp. boothii, E. boothii subsp. condensata, E. boothii subsp. decorticans, E. boothii subsp. desertorum, E. boothii subsp. intermedia
Synonyms Oenothera alyssoides, Camissonia boothii subsp. alyssoides, C. boothii var. alyssoides, C. boothii var. villosa, Holostigma alyssoides, O. alyssoides var. villosa, O. boothii subsp. alyssoides, O. gauriflora var. hitchcockii, O. utahensis, Sphaerostigma alyssoides, S. hitchcockii, S. implexum, S. macrophyllum, S. utahense
Name authority (Hooker & Arnott) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 209. (2007)
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