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frying-pans

Habit Plants annual, scapose, erect, 5-15 cm, glabrous.
Leaves

basal;

blade glabrous, ultimate lobes acute.

Inflorescences

1-flowered;

buds erect.

Flowers

receptacle obconic, cup without spreading free rim;

calyx acute, glabrous;

petals yellow, 7-12 mm.

Capsules

4-7 cm.

Seeds

brown, spheric to ellipsoid, 1.4-2 mm, burlike with raised ridges.

2n

= 12.

Eschscholzia lobbii

Phenology Flowering late winter–spring (Mar–May).
Habitat Open fields, grasslands
Elevation 0-600 m (0-2000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Eschscholzia lobbii grows in the Great Central Valley and in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

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

Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Papaveraceae > Eschscholzia
Sibling taxa
E. caespitosa, E. californica, E. glyptosperma, E. hypecoides, E. lemmonii, E. minutiflora, E. parishii, E. ramosa, E. rhombipetala
Name authority Greene: Pittonia 5: 290. (1905)
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