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Habit Herbs glabrous.
Stems

several, unbranched, sometimes with shorter secondary branches, 5–30(–42) cm.

Leaves

green, usually flecked with reddish purple splotches or reddish tinged, (5.5–)7–11(–12.5) × (0.3–)0.8–2(–3) cm;

blade usually elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, sometimes linear, moderately thick, fleshy, margins usually undulate, usually conspicuously denticulate to serrulate, rarely subentire, apex acute.

Flowers

buds with unequal free tips (5–)6–10(–15) mm;

floral tube (82–)90–140(–147) mm;

sepals 35–60 mm;

petals (38–)42–55(–65) mm;

filaments 24–34 mm, anthers (15–)19–21(–25) mm;

style (120–)140–190 mm.

Capsules

globose to narrowly ellipsoid, not twisted, wings (10–)15–20(–25) mm wide, body 35–55(–75) × 7–9 mm.2n = 14.

Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. oklahomensis

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun(–Sep).
Habitat Rocky, clay soil, open sites of fine-textured, red sandstone usually mixed with gypsum, on pure gypsum, on limestone.
Elevation 200–500(–800) m. (700–1600(–2600) ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
KS; OK; TX
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Discussion

Subspecies oklahomensis is known from Barber, Harper, Meade, and Montgomery counties in extreme southern Kansas south across central Oklahoma to Harmon County in southwestern Oklahoma, and Cooke and Knox counties in adjacent 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. incana, O. macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
Synonyms Megapteriumoklahomense norton, O. macrocarpa var. oklahomensis, O. missourensis var. oklahomensis
Name authority (Norton) W. L. Wagner: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 70: 194. (1983)
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