Limnanthes floccosa |
Limnanthes alba |
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woolly meadowfoam |
white meadowfoam |
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Habit | Plants 3–25 cm; herbage glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy. | Plants 8–40 cm; herbage glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stems | erect to ascending or decumbent. |
erect. |
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Leaves | 1–8 cm; leaflets 5–11, blade linear to ovate-elliptic, margins entire, irregularly toothed, or lobed. |
2–10 cm; leaflets 5–9, blade oblong, ovate, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, margins entire or shallowly 2-lobed to deeply 3-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. |
bowl- to bell-shaped; sepals accrescent or not, lanceolate, ovate, or lanceolate-ovate, 4–8 mm; petals white or cream (sometimes cream basally, aging or drying pink or lilac), obovate, obovate-cuneate, or obcordate, 8–16 mm, 1–1.5 times as long as wide, 1.25–2.1 times longer than sepals, apex usually emarginate, sometimes truncate; filaments 3–6 mm; anthers 1–2 mm; style 2–6 mm. |
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Nutlets | dark brown or gray, 3–4.5 mm, tuberculate, tubercles straw-colored, platelike, conic, or awl-shaped. |
gray or dark brown, 3–4 mm, tuberculate or not, sometimes ridged, tubercles gray or dark brown, relatively low and wide. |
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2n | = 10. |
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Limnanthes floccosa |
Limnanthes alba |
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Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; OR
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Discussion | Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora). Subspecies gracilis and parishii, previously in Limnanthes gracilis, are more closely related to subsp. alba than they are to each other. The genetic distance between them and other subspecies of L. alba is sufficient that an argument could be made for recognizing both parishii and gracilis as species (R. V. Kesseli, pers. comm.). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 182. | FNA vol. 7, p. 180. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Name authority | Howell: Fl. N.W. Amer., 108. (1897) | Hartweg ex Bentham: Pl. Hartw., 301. (1849) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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