Polanisia dodecandra |
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polanisia dodecandra, red-whisker clammy-weed, red-whiskered clammyweed, roughseed clammyweed |
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Habit | Annuals, rarely perennials, (5–)10–60(–90+) cm. | ||||||||
Stems | branched; hairs stalked, glandular throughout. |
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Leaves | petiole green to purple, angled, 1.5–4.5(–6) cm, glandular; leaflet blade oblanceolate to obovate or broadly elliptic, 1.9–4.5(–6.5) × 0.5–2(–3) cm, margins entire, surfaces sparsely glandular. |
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Racemes | (dense) 5–20 cm (10–30 cm in fruit); bracts unifoliate, lanceolate to orbiculate, 5–20 mm. |
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Pedicels | 10–25(–40) mm. |
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Flowers | sepals purple, oblong, 3–6 × 1.5–2.5 mm, margins entire, apex acuminate, glandular; petals white, pink, rose, or purple, oblong-ovate, clawed, abaxial pair (3–)5–10 × 1.8–3(–5) mm, apex emarginate to lacerate, adaxial pair 8–14 × 3–5 mm, apex emarginate; nectary glands bright orange, not conspicuous (in fruit); stamens 10–20, exserted, purple, (6–)7–28(–40) mm; anthers purple, 1–1.3 mm; gynophore 0–2 mm in fruit; ovary 5–10 mm; style deciduous in fruit, 5–17 mm; stigma purple. |
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Capsules | (inflated) 40–70 × 5–9 mm, reticulate, glandular. |
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Seeds | 20–65, dark reddish brown, globose to oblong, 2–2.3 mm, roughened or tuberculate-rugose. |
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Polanisia dodecandra |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MT; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; SD; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; MB; ON; QC; SK; n Mexico
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 201. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Cleomaceae > Polanisia | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Cleome dodecandra | ||||||||
Name authority | (Linnaeus) de Candolle: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 1: 242. (1824) | ||||||||
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