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Habit Herbs sparsely to densely strigillose throughout, more densely so on distal parts. Herbs densely pubescent with mixture of hair types, always short-pilose, especially on ovary and stem, usually also hirtellous, especially on stem and distal parts, sometimes also strigillose, especially on leaves, or glandular puberulent distally.
Leaves

1–3.5 × 0.05–0.4 cm, fascicles of small leaves 0.2–1.5 cm usually present in axils;

blade narrowly lanceolate, sometimes linear, base attenuate, margins entire or shallowly and sparsely serrulate, sometimes undulate.

0.6–4 × 0.15–1.2 cm, fascicles of small leaves often absent or much reduced, sometimes to 1.5 cm;

blade very narrowly elliptic or narrowly lanceolate to ovate, base truncate or subcordate and clasping, rarely nearly clasping, margins entire or sparsely serrulate, rarely crinkled-undulate.

Flowers

buds with free tips (1–)2–6 mm;

floral tube (18–)30–50(–60) mm;

sepals 8–20 mm;

petals 13–30 mm;

filaments 5–10 mm, anthers 5–9 mm;

style 30–65(–75) mm.

buds with free tips 0.5–3 mm;

floral tube 20–50 mm;

sepals 9–26 mm;

petals 12–35 mm;

filaments 5–12 mm, anthers 4–13 mm;

style 25–70 mm.

2n

= 14, 28.

= 14, 28.

Oenothera hartwegii subsp. hartwegii

Oenothera hartwegii subsp. pubescens

Phenology Flowering Feb–Oct. Flowering Mar–Oct.
Habitat Rocky or gravelly soil, sometimes limestone, grasslands, conifer woodlands. Colonial in moderately dry, open places, plains, hills, sandy to gravelly soil, limestone or gypsum, grasslands with Juniperus and Prosopis.
Elevation 900–2300 m. (3000–7500 ft.) 200–2100 m. (700–6900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico (Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas)
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from FNA
AZ; CO; KS; NM; OK; TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Durango)
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Discussion

Subspecies hartwegii is the most southerly distributed among the taxa in sect. Calylophus, occurring widely from western Texas south into northern Mexico. It is often found in canyons and high plains in the northern part of its range, and reaching pine forests at its southern limits. It is weakly distinct from subsp. maccartii.

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

Subspecies pubescens occurs from Baca and Las Animas counties, Colorado, Clark, Meade, Morton, and Seward counties, Kansas, to western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, throughout central and trans-Pecos Texas, west through eastern and southern New Mexico to central and southeastern Arizona, and also very locally in northern Mexico.

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

Source FNA vol. 10. FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Calylophus > subsect. Salpingia > Oenothera hartwegii Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Calylophus > subsect. Salpingia > Oenothera hartwegii
Sibling taxa
O. hartwegii subsp. fendleri, O. hartwegii subsp. filifolia, O. hartwegii subsp. maccartii, O. hartwegii subsp. pubescens
O. hartwegii subsp. fendleri, O. hartwegii subsp. filifolia, O. hartwegii subsp. hartwegii, O. hartwegii subsp. maccartii
Synonyms O. greggii var. pringlei, O. pringlei O. greggii var. pubescens, Calylophus hartwegii subsp. pubescens, C. hartwegii var. pubescens, Galpinsia camporum, G. greggii, G. interior, G. lampasana, O. camporum, O. greggii, O. greggii var. lampasana, O. interior, O. lampasana
Name authority unknown (A. Gray) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 212. (2007)
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