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yellow rocknettle, yellow stingbush

Habit Herbs or subshrubs, annual or perennial, moundlike to spindle-shaped (wider than tall).
Leaves

blade shallowly to prominently lobed.

Pedicels

(fruiting) 3–35+ cm, frequently recurved.

Flowers

radially symmetric or slightly bilaterally symmetric through upward curvature of stamen filaments;

corolla funnelform, petals connate to 3 mm, 1-colored, yellow, spatulate, 10–55[–58] mm;

stamens 15–150+, inserted at base of corolla, exserted, spreading away from style;

filaments 13–60 mm, longer than anthers.

Eucnide bartonioides

Distribution
from FNA
TX; n Mexico
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

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

Key
1. Petals 30–55 mm; stamens (55–)70–150+, filaments 30–60 mm.
var. bartonioides
1. Petals 10–25 mm; stamens 15–70, filaments 13–30(–35) mm.
var. edwardsiana
Source FNA vol. 12, p. 495.
Parent taxa Loasaceae > Eucnide
Sibling taxa
E. lobata, E. rupestris, E. urens
Subordinate taxa
E. bartonioides var. bartonioides, E. bartonioides var. edwardsiana
Name authority Zuccarini: Index Seminum (München) 1844: [4]. (1844)
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