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Habit Herbs strigillose, usually densely so, rarely glabrous, and sometimes glandular puberulent distally.
Stems

several, unbranched, sometimes with shorter secondary branches, 1–20(–30) cm.

Leaves

usually gray, rarely green, (5–)6.2–12.5(–17) ×2–4.3 cm;

blade usually very broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, rarely oblanceolate or elliptic, margins usually flat, sometimes undulate, usually entire, sometimes inconspicuously denticulate, apex usually acute to obtuse, sometimes retuse.

Flowers

buds with unequal free tips 5–11 mm;

floral tube (50–)70–140(–160) mm;

sepals (25–)35–50 mm;

petals (25–)31–50(–52) mm;

filaments (13–)15–25(–28) mm, anthers(10–)14–20 mm;

style (75–)100–192 mm.

Capsules

broadly ellipsoid to globose, not twisted, wings 10–15(–24) mm wide, body 28–48(–74) × 6–8 mm.

2n

= 14.

Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. incana

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun(–Aug).
Habitat Rocky, clay soil, grass­lands, disturbed sites, limestone, gypsum, rarely igneous soil.
Elevation (500–)600–1200 m. ((1600–)2000–3900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
KS; OK; TX
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Discussion

Subspecies incana occurs on the high plains in Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, and Meade counties, Kansas, south across Oklahoma as far east as Comanche and Harper counties to the Texas Panhandle to Garza and Knox counties; one collection is known from Taylor County, Texas.

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

Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Megapterium > Oenothera macrocarpa
Sibling taxa
O. macrocarpa subsp. fremontii, O. macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa, O. macrocarpa subsp. oklahomensis
Synonyms Oenotheramissourensis sims var. incana, Megapterium argyrophyllum, O. macrocarpa var. incana
Name authority (A. Gray) W. L. Wagner: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 70: 194. (1983)
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