Oenothera stricta |
Oenothera neomexicana |
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Chilean evening primrose |
New Mexico evening-primrose |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, glabrate proximally, strigillose and villous distally; from a taproot, also with lateral roots producing adventitious shoots. | |
Stems | erect or ascending, unbranched or branched, 30–60 cm. |
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Leaves | in a basal rosette and cauline, rosette weakly developed or absent, at least during flowering, 3–9 × (0.6–)1–2.5 cm; petiole 0–2 cm; blade oblong to lanceolate or narrowly ovate, margins irregularly sinuate-dentate. |
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Flowers | 1–several opening per day near sunset; buds nodding, weakly quadrangular, with free tips 0.5–4 mm; floral tube 30–50 mm; sepals 20–30 mm, not spotted; petals white, fading pink, broadly obovate, 20–30 mm; filaments 10–15 mm, anthers 8–15 mm; style 50–70 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | erect or strongly ascending, not woody, straight or slightly curved, subcylindrical, obtusely 4-angled, tapering gradually from base to apex, 20–30 × 2–3 mm; sessile. |
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Seeds | numerous, in 1 row per locule, dark brown, narrowly obovoid, 1.5 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Oenothera stricta |
Oenothera neomexicana |
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Phenology | Flowering (Mar–)Jun–Jul(–Sep). | |
Habitat | Uncommon, in rocky or sandy clay or loamy soil in coniferous forest openings, stream valleys, roadsides. | |
Elevation | 1500–3300 m. (4900–10800 ft.) | |
Distribution |
South America [Introduced, California] |
AZ; NM
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). Oenothera stricta is a PTH species and forms a ring of 14 chromosomes in meiosis, and is self-compatible and autogamous (W. Dietrich 1977). Subspecies stricta is naturalized in many areas around the world and may be so in California. Subspecies altissima W. Dietrich occurs only in Argentina. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Oenothera neomexicana is known from central to western New Mexico west of the Rio Grande Valley, except for the Organ Mountains, and eastern and central Arizona from the White Mountains south to Mount Graham and northwestward across the Mogollon Rim in Coconino and Yavapai counties. Oenothera neomexicana had been assumed to be self-incompatible (W. L. Wagner et al. 2007), but K. E. Theiss et al. (2010) determined one population sampled to be consistently self-compatible. (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. Oenothera > subsect. Munzia > ser. Allochroa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Anogra |
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Synonyms | Anogra neomexicana | |
Name authority | Ledebour ex Link: Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 377. (1821) — (as striata) | (Small) Munz: Amer. J. Bot. 18: 317. (1931) |
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