Mentzelia floridana |
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Florida stickleaf, poorman's patch, poorman's patches |
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Habit | Plants perennial, with caudices. |
Stems | erect, becoming decumbent, to 60 cm. |
Leaves | petiole to 25 mm; blade usually hastate or ovate, distal sometimes elliptic, basally lobed or unlobed, to 8.4 × 5.5 cm, base usually truncate, sometimes obtusely cuneate, margins usually serrate or dentate to crenate, sometimes entire, apex acute. |
Pedicels | (fruiting) 0.6–4 × less than 1 mm. |
Flowers | petals creamy yellow to orange, 6.5–13 × 3.5–7 mm, apex cuspidate, hairy on apex; stamens 20–35, 6–11 mm, filaments heteromorphic, 5 outermost narrowly spatulate, inner filiform; style 8–10 mm. |
Capsules | usually lingulate to funnelform, rarely ovoid, 10–18 × 4–5.8 mm, base rounded or cuneate, capsule and pedicel well-differentiated. |
Seeds | (4–)6–8 per capsule, pyriform, without transverse folds. |
2n | = 20. |
Mentzelia floridana |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–May. |
Habitat | Beaches, dunes, sand flats along ocean and rivers, coastal hammocks, disturbed areas, roadsides, shell mounds. |
Elevation | 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.) |
Distribution |
FL; West Indies (Bahamas) |
Discussion | Mentzelia floridana, which is widespread in peninsular Florida, belongs to a clade restricted to the Gulf coastal and Caribbean region; it is most closely related to M. gracilis Urban & Gilg of Mexico and to M. lindheimeri of Texas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 528. |
Parent taxa | Loasaceae > Mentzelia > sect. Mentzelia |
Sibling taxa | |
Name authority | Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 533. (1840) |
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