Claytonia gypsophiloides
Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 2: 33. 1835.
Common names: Coast Range claytonia
Endemic
Synonyms: Claytonia nubigena Greene Montia gypsophiloides (Fischer & C. A. Meyer) Howell Montia perfoliata var. nubigena (Greene) Jepson
Plants annual, with minute, tuberous bodies; periderm absent. Stems 5–15 cm. Leaves: blades gray, beige, or pink, glaucous; basal blades linear (almost filiform), 3–12 × 0.05–0.1 cm; cauline leaves sessile, blades distinct and spatulate or partially connate into horn shape, 0.2–1.5 cm, or perfoliate, 0.2–1.5 cm wide. Inflorescences 1-bracteate; bract leaflike, 0.5–15 mm. Flowers 6–12 mm diam.; sepals 2–3 mm; petals pink or white, 6–10 mm; ovules 3. Seeds 1–2 mm diam., tuberculate; elaiosome 0.5–1 mm. 2n = 16.
Phenology: Flowering Feb–May.
Habitat: Moist areas on serpentine in open glades or slopes of chaparral and foothill pine woodlands
Elevation: 100-1200 m
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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... more about "Claytonia gypsophiloides"
few;several +
perfoliate +
distinct +
occasionally dentate;crisped +
glaucous +
tuberous +
leaflike +
scale-like +
membranous +
3-valved +
dehiscent +
woody +
sessile +
Coast Range claytonia +
Calif. +
white +
solitary +
irregular +
symmetric +
showy +
multiple +
capsular +
2-9-carpelled +
Moist areas on serpentine in open glades or slopes of chaparral and foothill pine woodlands +
single +
1-bracteate +
racemose +
spikelike +
not articulate +
clasping +
hygroscopic +
involute +
glabrous +
plurilocular +
superior +
globose +
1-many +
absent +
absent +
Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) +
1835 +
branched +
capillary +
fibrous +
black +
dispersed +
1mm;2mm +
shiny +
tuberculate +
rounded +
leaflike +
persistent +
2;9 +
unequal +
Endemic +
opposite +
adnate +
aerial +
subterranean +
branched +
absent +
Claytonia gypsophiloides +
Claytonia +
species +
not deciduous +
annual +