Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. incana |
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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 |
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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 |
KS; OK; TX |
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. |
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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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