Oenothera stricta |
Oenothera platanorum |
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Chilean evening primrose |
Fort Huachuca evening primrose |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, caulescent, strigillose, often densely so; from slender taproot. | |
Stems | 1–several, ascending, 5–60 cm. |
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Leaves | in a basal rosette and cauline, basal 2–7 × 0.3–1.4 cm, blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, margins weakly serrulate to sinuate-pinnatifid; cauline 1.2–6 × 0.3–1 cm, blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic or ovate, proximal ones sinuate-pinnatifid, margins subentire or weakly serrulate. |
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Inflorescences | erect. |
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Flowers | 1–3 opening per day near sunrise; buds with free tips 0–0.1 mm; floral tube 9–14 mm; sepals 7.5–13 mm; petals rose purple, fading darker, 8–15 mm; filaments 4–9 mm, anthers 2.5–4 mm, pollen 85–100% fertile; style 12–19 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | clavate or narrowly obovoid, 9–14 × 3–4 mm, apex attenuate to a sterile beak, valve midrib prominent in distal part, proximal stipe 4–15 mm, gradually tapering to base; sessile. |
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Seeds | narrowly obovoid, 0.7–0.9 × 0.3–0.5 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Oenothera stricta |
Oenothera platanorum |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Aug. | |
Habitat | Streambeds and near springs. | |
Elevation | 700–1900 m. (2300–6200 ft.) | |
Distribution |
South America [Introduced, California] |
AZ; Mexico (Sonora) |
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 platanorum is known only from the southeastern counties of Cochise, Pinal, and Santa Cruz in Arizona. It was recently collected in Sonora, Mexico. The species is very similar to both O. texensis, from which it differs in its smaller flowers, and the widespread O. rosea, from which it differs in the somewhat larger flowers and in forming seven bivalents in meiosis and fully fertile pollen, whereas O. rosea is a PTH species. (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. Hartmannia |
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Name authority | Ledebour ex Link: Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 377. (1821) — (as striata) | P. H. Raven & D. R. Parnell: Madroño 20: 246. (1970) |
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