Streptanthus campestris |
Streptanthus farnsworthianus |
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southern jewel flower |
Farnsworth's jewel flower |
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Habit | Perennials; (short-lived, caudex not woody); usually glabrous, (basal leaf blade margins pubescent, sometimes sepals). | Annuals; (glaucous, usually with purplish cast), glabrous. |
Stems | unbranched or branched, (few, glaucous), 6–15(–18) dm. |
unbranched or branched distally, 2–10 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). |
(soon withered); rosulate; petiolate; blade 2-pinnatifid or 2-pinnatisect, 3.5–15 cm. |
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. |
blade lanceolate, 3–16 cm × 10–40 mm, (smaller distally), base amplexicaul, margins dentate or entire (entire distally). |
Racemes | ebracteate, (with densely clustered buds, later lax). |
bracteate below or between proximalmost 1 or 2 flowers. |
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. |
calyx urceolate; sepals violet-purple, 6–10 mm, slightly keeled or not, (apex recurved); petals white (with violet veins), 8–11 mm, blade 3–4 × 1.5–2 mm, margins not crisped, (undulate), claw 6–8 mm, about as wide as blade, (apex reflexed); stamens in 3 unequal pairs; filaments (distinct): abaxial pair 4–6 mm, lateral pair 3–4 mm, adaxial pair 7–9 mm; anthers: abaxial and lateral pairs fertile, 3.5–5 mm, adaxial pair partially fertile, 2.5–3 mm; gynophore 1–2 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, (straight), 5–18 mm. |
divaricate-ascending, (straight), 4–15 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. |
ascending, smooth, straight or slightly curved, flattened, 6–12 cm × 1.7–2.5 mm; valves each with prominent midvein; replum straight; ovules 60–100 per ovary; style 0.1–1 mm; stigma slightly 2-lobed. |
Seeds | oblong, 2–3 × 1.4–2 mm; wing 0.1–0.2 mm wide at apex. |
broadly ovoid to suborbicular, 2–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm; wing 0.1–0.3 mm wide, distal 1/2. |
2n | = 28. |
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Streptanthus campestris |
Streptanthus farnsworthianus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Rocky openings in chaparral, open conifer forests, openings and after fires in chaparral-oak woodlands | Sparsely rocky sites with vegetation (fractured slate, metamorphic gravels, gruss deposits), oak-pine woodlands |
Elevation | 900-2300 m (3000-7500 ft) | 400-1400 m (1300-4600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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CA |
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.) |
Streptanthus farnsworthianus is known from Fresno, Kern, Madera, and Tulare counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 707. | FNA vol. 7, p. 711. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Streptanthus | Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Streptanthus |
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Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 25: 125. (1890) | J. T. Howell: Leafl. W. Bot. 10: 182. (1965) |
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