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woolly meadowfoam

Photo is of parent taxon

large-flower dwarf meadowfoam

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

sparsely hairy.

Stems

erect to ascending or decumbent.

erect to ascending.

Leaves

1–8 cm;

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

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 accrescent, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 8.5–9 mm, abaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy, adaxially densely hairy;

petals obovate, 4.5–8.5 mm, apex obtuse, not emarginate, sometimes erose;

filaments 4.5–5 mm;

anthers ca. 0.8 mm, usually dehiscing extrorsely;

style 3.2–4 mm.

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.

Limnanthes floccosa

Limnanthes floccosa subsp. grandiflora

Phenology Flowering Apr–May.
Habitat Wet, inner edges of vernal pools
Elevation 300-400 m [1000-1300 ft]
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
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from FNA
OR
Discussion

Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora).

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

Of conservation concern.

Subspecies grandiflora occurs primarily in the Agate Desert of Jackson County.

(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. 182. FNA vol. 7, p. 183.
Parent taxa Limnanthaceae > Limnanthes > sect. Inflexae Limnanthaceae > Limnanthes > sect. Inflexae > Limnanthes floccosa
Sibling taxa
L. alba, L. bakeri, L. douglasii, L. macounii, L. montana, L. vinculans
L. floccosa subsp. bellingeriana, L. floccosa subsp. californica, L. floccosa subsp. floccosa, L. floccosa subsp. pumila
Subordinate taxa
L. floccosa subsp. bellingeriana, L. floccosa subsp. californica, L. floccosa subsp. floccosa, L. floccosa subsp. grandiflora, L. floccosa subsp. pumila
Name authority Howell: Fl. N.W. Amer., 108. (1897) Arroyo: Brittonia 25: 188. (1973)
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