Limnanthes floccosa |
Limnanthes floccosa subsp. pumila |
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woolly meadowfoam |
dwarf meadowfoam |
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Habit | Plants 3–25 cm; herbage glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy. | |||||||||||||||||
Herbage | glabrous. |
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Stems | erect to ascending or decumbent. |
decumbent. |
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Leaves | 1–8 cm; leaflets 5–11, blade linear to ovate-elliptic, margins entire, irregularly toothed, or lobed. |
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Flowers | urn-, cup-, or bell-shaped; sepals accrescent or not, ovate, obovate, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate-ovate, 4–10 mm; petals white, obovate, oblong, or obovate-cuneate, 4.5–10 mm, 1.6–1.8 times as long as wide, 0.5–1.1 times longer than sepals, apex retuse, obtuse, erose, truncate, or emarginate; filaments 2–7 mm; anthers (yellow) 0.4–1.5 mm; style 1.5–4 mm. |
cup-shaped; sepals not accrescent, lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 7.5–8 mm, abaxially and adaxially glabrous; petals oblong, 7.5–8.5 mm, apex obtuse (not emarginate); filaments 4.2–4.7 mm; anthers ± 1 mm, usually dehiscing introrsely; style 3–3.5 mm. |
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Nutlets | dark brown or gray, 3–4.5 mm, tuberculate, tubercles straw-colored, platelike, conic, or awl-shaped. |
3–5, tubercles broad-based, platelike cones. |
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Limnanthes floccosa |
Limnanthes floccosa subsp. pumila |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Edges of deep vernal pools on lava flows | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 600 m (2000 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; OR
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OR |
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Discussion | Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Subspecies pumila is found only on the summits of Upper Table Rock and Lower Table Rock, in Jackson County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 182. | FNA vol. 7, p. 183. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Limnanthaceae > Limnanthes > sect. Inflexae | Limnanthaceae > Limnanthes > sect. Inflexae > Limnanthes floccosa | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | L. pumila, L. floccosa var. pumila | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Howell: Fl. N.W. Amer., 108. (1897) | (Howell) Arroyo: Brittonia 25: 187. (1973) | ||||||||||||||||
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