Oenothera linifolia |
Calylophus tubicula(synonym of Oenothera tubicula) |
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threadleaf evening-primrose, threadleaf sundrop |
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Habit | Herbs annual, caulescent, strigillose or glabrous, also often glandular puberulent, especially distally; from a sparsely branched taproot. | |
Stems | unbranched or with many ascending branches arising near base, erect, 10–50 cm. |
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Leaves | in a basal rosette and cauline, basal 1–2(–4) × 0.2–0.6 cm, petiole 0.2–1(–1.5) cm, blade ovate to obovate or narrowly elliptic; cauline 1–4 × less than 0.1 cm, sessile, blade linear or filiform. |
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Flowers | usually 1–3 opening per day near sunrise; buds without free tips; sepals 1.5–2 mm; petals bright yellow, fading pink, obcordate to obovate, 3–5(–7) mm; filaments 1–2 mm, anthers 0.5–1 mm; style 1–2 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | ellipsoid-rhombic to subglobose, 4-angled, 4–6(–10) × 1.5–3 mm, stipe 0–4 mm, valve midrib raised at distal end, indehiscent or tardily dehiscent distally; sessile. |
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Seeds | clustered in each locule, ovoid, surface minutely papillose, 1 × 0.5 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Oenothera linifolia |
Calylophus tubicula |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Aug). | |
Habitat | Prairies, open woodlands, open rocky and sandy sites, roadsides. | |
Elevation | 0–400 m. (0–1300 ft.) | |
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; IL; KS; KY; LA; MO; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX
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sw United States; sc United States; n Mexico |
Discussion | Kneiffia linearifolia Spach (1835) is an illegitimate name based on Oenothera linifolia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). H. F. Towner (1977) found that Oenothera tubicula is self-incompatible and diurnal with opening times just prior to sunrise. It occurs primarily on limestone soil in arid lowlands, but occasionally in montane areas, from Guadalupe County, New Mexico, south to western Texas, northeast to Howard County, Texas, and south to northern Zacatecas, south-central Nuevo León, and southwestern Tamaulipas, 600–1800 m. Subspecies strigulosa (Towner) W. L. Wagner & Hoch is known only from rocky, open sites and canyons in relatively montane areas, sometimes in pine forests in southernmost Coahuila, south-central Nuevo León, and southeastern Tamaulipas, from 1500 to 2300 m. It differs in being strigillose on the ovary and distally on stems, leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, and the petals fading red or purple. (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. Peniophyllum | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Calylophus > subsect. Salpingia |
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Synonyms | Kneiffia linifolia, O. linifolia var. glandulosa, Peniophyllum linifolium | Calylophus tubiculus, Galpinsia tubicula, O. hartwegii var. tubicula |
Name authority | Nuttall: J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 2: 120. (1821) | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 71. (1852) |
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