Eschscholzia minutiflora
Coville s poppy, pygmy goldenpoppy, pygmy poppy
basal and cauline;
blade grayish or bluish green, glabrous, glaucous; ultimate lobes usually obtuse, terminal broadened at apex.
cymose or 1-flowered;
buds nodding.
receptacle obconic, cup without spreading free rim;
calyx acuminate, glabrous, sometimes glaucous;
petals yellow, sometimes with orange spot at base, 3-26 mm.
3-6 cm.
brown to black, ellipsoid, 1-1.4 mm, reticulate.
= 12, 24, 36.
Eschscholzia minutiflora
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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