Streptanthus campestris |
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southern jewel flower |
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Habit | Perennials; (short-lived, caudex not woody); usually glabrous, (basal leaf blade margins pubescent, sometimes sepals). |
Stems | unbranched or branched, (few, glaucous), 6–15(–18) dm. |
Basal leaves | often rosulate; petiolate; blade (fleshy), oblanceolate to obovate, 3.5–21 cm, margins dentate, (bristly ciliate throughout or only teeth and petiole ciliate). |
Cauline leaves | blade lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 3.5–11(–15) cm × 6–14 mm (smaller distally), base auriculate to amplexicaul, margins usually entire or undulate, rarely dentate. |
Racemes | ebracteate, (with densely clustered buds, later lax). |
Flowers | calyx campanulate; sepals (suberect), purple, (broadly ovate or oblong), 7–10 mm, not keeled, (apically bristly or not); petals light purple (with pale yellow claw), 9–12 mm, blade 2–3.5 × 0.5–1 mm, margins not crisped, claw 6–9 mm, wider than blade; stamens tetradynamous; filaments: median pairs (distinct), 6–8 mm, lateral pair 4–6 mm; anthers (all) fertile, 3–4 mm; gynophore 0.5–1.5 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, (straight), 5–18 mm. |
Fruits | spreading to ascending, smooth, slightly curved to straight, flattened, 6–14 cm × 2–3.5 mm; valves each with obscure midvein; replum straight; ovules 50–102 per ovary; style 1–3 mm; stigma 2-lobed. |
Seeds | oblong, 2–3 × 1.4–2 mm; wing 0.1–0.2 mm wide at apex. |
Streptanthus campestris |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Rocky openings in chaparral, open conifer forests, openings and after fires in chaparral-oak woodlands |
Elevation | 900-2300 m (3000-7500 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Streptanthus campestris is distributed in California in Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties, and in Baja California in Sierra San Pedro Mártir and Sierra Juárez. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 707. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Streptanthus |
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Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 25: 125. (1890) |
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