Mentzelia decapetala |
Mentzelia torreyi |
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10-petal western star, evening starflower, gumbo-lily, tenpetal blazingstar |
Torrey's blazing star |
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Habit | Plants biennial or perennial, bushlike, perennials with ground-level caudices. | Plants with ground-level or subterranean caudices. | ||||
Stems | solitary, erect, straight; branches distal or along entire stem, proximal or distal longest, antrorse, straight to upcurved; hairy. |
5–25 cm. |
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Leaves | blade 72–295 × 14–45 mm, widest intersinus distance 10.1–23.3 mm; proximal oblanceolate or elliptic, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 16–26, slightly antrorse, 1–16.5 mm; distal elliptic to lanceolate, base clasping or not, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 9–20, slightly antrorse, 5.3–13.7 mm; surfaces with needlelike trichomes. |
petiole absent; blade ovate or obovate, to 45 × 35 mm, intersinus distance 2–4 mm. |
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Bracts | margins pinnate. |
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Pedicels | 0(–1.5) mm. |
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Flowers | petals white, 47–75 × 13–22.7 mm, apex acute to attenuate, glabrous abaxially; stamens white to yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments spatulate, strongly clawed, 48–75 × 12–23 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 36–53 mm. |
petals yellow to orange, narrowly spatulate to obovate, 4.5–17 × 1.2–5 mm, apex rounded; stamens 25–45, 7–21 mm; styles 7–18 mm. |
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Capsules | cylindric, 30–43 × 12–17 mm, base tapering, not longitudinally ridged. |
3–7 × 3–4.5 mm. |
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Seeds | 2.3–4 mm; coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–10 per cell. |
3–9 per capsule, edges prominently to inconspicuously ridged. |
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2n | = 22. |
= 28. |
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Mentzelia decapetala |
Mentzelia torreyi |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug(–Oct). | |||||
Habitat | Rock outcrops, slopes, dry short-grass prairies, riverbanks, roadsides, loam, limestone, sandy, silty, clayey, and gravelly soils. | |||||
Elevation | 300–2400 m. (1000–7900 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CO; IA; IL; KS; MN; MT; NE; NM; OK; SD; TX; UT; WY; AB; MB; SK
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CA; ID; NV
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Discussion | Mentzelia decapetala is introduced in Grundy County, Illinois. It appears to be native throughout the rest of its distribution. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in flora). In the phylogenetic study by L. Hufford et al. (2003), Mentzelia torreyi was recovered as the sister to the rest of the genus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 504. | FNA vol. 12, p. 530. | ||||
Parent taxa | Loasaceae > Mentzelia > sect. Bartonia | Loasaceae > Mentzelia > sect. Micromentzelia | ||||
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Synonyms | Bartonia decapetala | |||||
Name authority | (Pursh) Urban: Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 10: 263. (1892) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 10: 72. (1874) | ||||
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