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Okanagan fameflower, Okanogan fameflower, Okanogan talinum

Habit Plants to 1 dm; roots elongate, fleshily woody.
Stems

spreading to ascending, branching, bearing ± persistent, arcuate, bristlelike, less than 5 mm, proximal portions of midribs of old leaves, suffrutescent.

Leaves

sessile;

blade subterete, to 1.2 cm, base attenuate.

Inflorescences

cymose, overtopping leaves;

peduncle somewhat scapelike or not, to 5 cm.

Flowers

sepals deciduous, ovate, to 4 mm;

petals white, sometimes tinged pink or pale yellow, obovate to suborbiculate, to 8 mm;

stamens 15;

stigma 1, subcapitate.

Capsules

subglobose, trigonous, to 4 mm.

Seeds

without arcuate ridges, 1 mm.

Phemeranthus sediformis

Phenology Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat Slopes, ledges, rocky soil
Elevation 1000-2000 m (3300-6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
WA; BC
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Phemeranthus sediformis is poorly known and merits further study in the field and better representation in herbaria. When its characters and their ranges of variation are better known, it may prove to be indistinct from P. spinescens.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 4, p. 494.
Parent taxa Portulacaceae > Phemeranthus
Sibling taxa
P. aurantiacus, P. brevicaulis, P. brevifolius, P. calcaricus, P. calycinus, P. humilis, P. longipes, P. marginatus, P. mengesii, P. parviflorus, P. rugospermus, P. spinescens, P. teretifolius, P. thompsonii, P. validulus
Synonyms Talinum sediforme, Talinum okanoganense, Talinum wayae
Name authority (Poellnitz) Kiger: Novon 11: 320. (2001)
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