Oenothera stricta |
Oenothera toumeyi |
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Chilean evening primrose |
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Habit | Herbs perennial or sometimes annual, glabrate to strigillose throughout; from a stout taproot. | |
Stems | 1–several, ascending to erect, unbranched to densely branched, 15–70 cm. |
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Leaves | 1–3.5 × 0.1–0.7 cm, fascicles of small leaves 0.2–2.5 cm present in non-flowering axils; petiole 0 cm; blade narrowly lanceolate, base acute-attenuate, margins entire or obscurely and sparsely serrulate, not undulate, apex acute. |
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Flowers | usually 1 per stem opening per day at sunset; buds with free tips 2–9(–12) mm; floral tube (15–)30–60(–70) mm, funnelform in distal 1/2 or less; sepals 10–25 mm; petals yellow, fading pale pink or pale purple, 10–20 mm; filaments 4–12 mm, anthers 6–10 mm, pollen 85–100% fertile; style 35–70(–80) mm, stigma yellow, quadrangular, usually exserted beyond anthers. |
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Capsules | 10–50 × 1.5–4 mm, somewhat papery, promptly dehiscent in distal 1/2. |
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Seeds | obovoid, 2–3 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Oenothera stricta |
Oenothera toumeyi |
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Phenology | Flowering (May–)Jul–Oct. | |
Habitat | Local and uncommon on shaded, rocky slopes or disturbed areas, pine-oak forests. | |
Elevation | 1500–2600 m. (4900–8500 ft.) | |
Distribution |
South America [Introduced, California] |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, 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 toumeyi occurs locally from the Chiricahua, Huachuca, and Santa Rita mountains in Cochise and Santa Cruz counties, Arizona, and the Mogollon Mountains in southern Catron County, New Mexico, south through northeastern Sonora in the Sierra Madre Occidental to west-central Chihuahua. H. F. Towner (1977) found that O. toumeyi is self-incompatible and vespertine. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
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Synonyms | Galpinsia toumeyi, Calylophus hartwegii subsp. toumeyi, C. hartwegii var. toumeyi, C. toumeyi, O. hartwegii var. toumeyi | |
Name authority | Ledebour ex Link: Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 377. (1821) — (as striata) | (Small) Tidestrom: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 48: 41. (1935) |
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