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Habit 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. Herbs glandular puberulent throughout, more densely so on distal parts, sometimes also sparsely strigillose on ovaries and leaves.
Leaves

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.

0.3–4 × 0.04–0.3(–0.4) cm, fascicles of small leaves to 1.5 cm often present in axils;

blade filiform to narrowly lanceolate, base attenuate, margins entire or remotely serrulate, sometimes undulate.

Flowers

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.

buds with free tips 0.5–4 mm;

floral tube 16–50 mm;

sepals 7–17 mm;

petals 12–23 mm;

filaments 6–13 mm, anthers 6–11 mm;

style 26–60 mm.

2n

= 14, 28.

= 14.

Oenothera hartwegii subsp. pubescens

Oenothera hartwegii subsp. filifolia

Phenology Flowering Mar–Oct. Flowering May–Oct.
Habitat Colonial in moderately dry, open places, plains, hills, sandy to gravelly soil, limestone or gypsum, grasslands with Juniperus and Prosopis. Highly local, often abundant, almost always on semiarid gypsum flats, dunes, or outcrops, with Juniperus, Larrea, and Yucca.
Elevation 200–2100 m. (700–6900 ft.) 600–1900 m. (2000–6200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; KS; NM; OK; TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Durango)
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from FNA
NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Zacatecas)
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Discussion

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.)

Subspecies filifolia occurs in Otero and Torrance counties in southeastern New Mexico, south and east through the Trans-Pecos and southern Panhandle of Texas to Cottle County in Texas, and southward from widely scattered localities in central Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Zacatecas, 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. hartwegii, O. hartwegii subsp. maccartii
O. hartwegii subsp. fendleri, O. hartwegii subsp. hartwegii, O. hartwegii subsp. maccartii, O. hartwegii subsp. pubescens
Synonyms 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 O. tubicula var. filifolia, Calylophus hartwegii subsp. filifolius, C. hartwegii var. filifolius, Galpinsia filifolia, O. filifolia, O. hartwegii var. filifolia
Name authority (A. Gray) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 212. (2007) (Eastwood) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 212. (2007)
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