Eschscholzia lemmonii |
Eschscholzia minutiflora |
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Lemmon's poppy |
Coville s poppy, pygmy goldenpoppy, pygmy poppy |
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Habit | Plants annual, caulescent, erect or spreading, 5-30 cm, glabrous to sparsely pubescent. | Plants annual, caulescent, erect or spreading, 5-35 cm. | ||||
Leaves | basal and cauline; blade with ultimate lobes generally obtuse. |
basal and cauline; blade grayish or bluish green, glabrous, glaucous; ultimate lobes usually obtuse, terminal broadened at apex. |
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Inflorescences | cymose or 1-flowered; buds erect or nodding. |
cymose or 1-flowered; buds nodding. |
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Flowers | receptacle turbinate, distally translucent and somewhat swollen, more than 1.5 mm broad, cup without spreading free rim; calyx acute, glabrous or pubescent; petals orange or deep yellow, 15-40 mm. |
receptacle obconic, cup without spreading free rim; calyx acuminate, glabrous, sometimes glaucous; petals yellow, sometimes with orange spot at base, 3-26 mm. |
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Capsules | 3-7 cm. |
3-6 cm. |
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Seeds | brown, 1.3-1.8 mm, reticulate. |
brown to black, ellipsoid, 1-1.4 mm, reticulate. |
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2n | = 12. |
= 12, 24, 36. |
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Eschscholzia lemmonii |
Eschscholzia minutiflora |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–spring (Mar–May). | |||||
Habitat | Desert washes, flats, and slopes | |||||
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
w North America (Calif)
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AZ; CA; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Eschscholzia minutiflora is highly variable in flower size. Typically, plants are hexaploid (2n = 36) with petals 3-10 mm. Tetraploid plants (2n = 24) with petals 6-18 mm, from the northern and central Mojave Desert of California, have been distinguished as subsp. covillei. Diploid plants (2n = 12) with petals 10-26 mm, restricted to the El Paso and Rand mountains of the western Mojave Desert, have been distinguished as E. minutiflora subsp. twisselmannii and are considered to be of conservation concern; previously they were misattributed to E. parishii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. | ||||
Parent taxa | Papaveraceae > Eschscholzia | Papaveraceae > Eschscholzia | ||||
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Synonyms | E. covillei, E. minutiflora subsp. covillei, E. minutiflora subsp. twisselmanii, E. minutiflora var. darwinensis | |||||
Name authority | Greene: W. Amer. Sci. 3: 157. (1887) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 11: 122. (1876) | ||||
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