Stylisma villosa
Stylisma patens
hairy dawnflower
coastal plain dawnflower
procumbent or trailing, glabrous or hairy.
procumbent or trailing, glabrous or hairy.
blades narrowly oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 30–70 × 10–20 mm, surfaces hairy.
blades elliptic or linear to lanceolate, 20–45 × 2–8 mm, surfaces hairy.
3–7-flowered.
2–5-flowered or flowers solitary;
bracteoles scalelike, 1–3(–5) mm.
sepals ovate-lanceolate, 7–11 × 3-5 mm, abaxial surface densely villous;
corolla white, 15–25 mm;
stamens: filaments glandular-villous near base.
sepals ovate-lanceolate, 6–9 × 3–5 mm, abaxial surface pilose, villous, glabrate, or glabrous;
corolla white, 14–20 mm;
stamens: filaments villous near base;
style branches connate only at base.
Stylisma villosa
Stylisma patens
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Leaf blades 6–8 mm wide, length 4–6 times width; sepals: abaxial surfaces pilose or villous. | var. patens |
1. Leaf blades 2–3(–5) mm wide, length 7–15 times width; sepals: abaxial surfaces glabrous or glabrate. | var. angustifolia |
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