Lewisia leeana |
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many flower lewisia, quill-leaf lewisia |
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Taproots | gradually ramified distally. |
Stems | spreading or suberect, 8–20 cm. |
Leaves | basal leaves evergreen, sessile, blade linear, ± terete, 1.5–6 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse; cauline leaves alternate, intergrading with bracts, blade narrowly lanceolate, 5 mm, margins entire, apex acute. |
Inflorescences | paniculate cymes, 50–70(–100)-flowered; bracts several, alternate proximally, 2 at each flowering node distally, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 2–5 mm, margins glandular-toothed, apex acute. |
Flowers | pedicellate, not disarticulate in fruit; sepals 2, suborbiculate, 1–4 mm, herbaceous at anthesis, margins glandular-toothed, apex truncate; petals 5–8, magenta, lavender, or white with or without magenta veins, obovate, 5–7 mm; stamens 4–8; stigmas 2; pedicel 3–15 mm. |
Capsules | 4–5 mm. |
Seeds | 1–2, 2–2.5 mm, shiny, smooth. |
2n | = 14. |
Lewisia leeana |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Open north- or northwest-facing granitic or serpentine slopes or cliffs |
Elevation | 1300-3400 m (4300-11200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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Discussion | Lewisia leeana is known only from northwestern California and southwesternmost Oregon, and a disjunct population in Fresno County, California. As discussed by B. Mathew (1989b), Lewisia ×whiteae Purdy (California) is a natural, constantly recurring hybrid between L. leeana and L. cotyledon. In their narrowly spatulate leaves, the hybrids resemble L. columbiana out of range (cf. L. T. Dempster 1993); the flowers are reportedly more deeply colored. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 481. |
Parent taxa | Portulacaceae > Lewisia |
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Synonyms | Calandrinia leeana, L. eastwoodiana, Oreobroma leeanum |
Name authority | (Porter) B. L. Robinson: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1: 269. (1897) |
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