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dwarf meadowfoam

woolly meadowfoam

Habit Plants 3–25 cm; herbage glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy.
Herbage

glabrous.

Stems

decumbent.

erect to ascending or decumbent.

Leaves

1–8 cm;

leaflets 5–11, blade linear to ovate-elliptic, margins entire, irregularly toothed, or lobed.

Flowers

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.

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.

Nutlets

3–5, tubercles broad-based, platelike cones.

dark brown or gray, 3–4.5 mm, tuberculate, tubercles straw-colored, platelike, conic, or awl-shaped.

Limnanthes floccosa subsp. pumila

Limnanthes floccosa

Phenology Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat Edges of deep vernal pools on lava flows
Elevation 600 m (2000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
OR
from FNA
CA; OR
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Discussion

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.)

Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora).

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

Key
1. Flowers bell- or urn-shaped (petals without marginal hairs basally); anthers usually dehiscing introrsely
→ 2
1. Flowers cup-shaped (petals with marginal hairs basally); anthers usually dehiscing extrorsely (introrsely in subsp. pumila)
→ 3
2. Sepals abaxially and adaxially densely villous; nutlet tubercles awl-shaped.
subsp. floccosa
2. Sepals abaxially and adaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy; nutlet tubercles platelike.
subsp. bellingeriana
3. Herbage densely hairy; sepals abaxially densely hairy.
subsp. californica
3. Herbage glabrous or sparsely hairy; sepals abaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy
→ 4
4. Sepals not accrescent, 7.5-8 mm, adaxially glabrous.
subsp. pumila
4. Sepals accrescent, 8.5-9 mm, adaxially densely hairy.
subsp. grandiflora
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 183. FNA vol. 7, p. 182.
Parent taxa Limnanthaceae > Limnanthes > sect. Inflexae > Limnanthes floccosa Limnanthaceae > Limnanthes > sect. Inflexae
Sibling taxa
L. floccosa subsp. bellingeriana, L. floccosa subsp. californica, L. floccosa subsp. floccosa, L. floccosa subsp. grandiflora
L. alba, L. bakeri, L. douglasii, L. macounii, L. montana, L. vinculans
Subordinate taxa
L. floccosa subsp. bellingeriana, L. floccosa subsp. californica, L. floccosa subsp. floccosa, L. floccosa subsp. grandiflora, L. floccosa subsp. pumila
Synonyms L. pumila, L. floccosa var. pumila
Name authority (Howell) Arroyo: Brittonia 25: 187. (1973) Howell: Fl. N.W. Amer., 108. (1897)
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