Dodecatheon clevelandii var. clevelandii
Common names: Padre’s shootingstar
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 274.
Inflorescences (1–) 5–16-flowered. Flowers: filament tube without yellow or white spot proximal to each anther; pollen-sacs yellow; connective yellow. 2n = 44.
Phenology: Flowering winter–spring.
Habitat: Dry or sometimes moist slopes and flats in coastal scrub communities, and in oak and/or conifer woodlands
Elevation: 0-700 m
Distribution
Calif., Mexico (Baja California)
Discussion
Of conservation concern.
Variety clevelandii is confined in the flora area mainly to the low mountains of the Transverse and Peninsular ranges of western Los Angeles, Orange, western Riverside, and San Diego counties. In Baja California, it is in the mountains as far south as the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, and in widely scattered locations along the coast to near El Rosario.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"reddish" is not a number. "maroon" is not a number. "purple" is not a number.
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hypogynous +
connivent +
acute;mostly acute;rounded +
decurrent +
narrowing +
ciliolate +
oblanceolate;spatulate +
ternate +
absent +
glabrous +
absent +
light greenish +
glandular-pubescent +
operculate +
valvate +
cylindric-ovoid +
not obvious +
bulbous +
globose +
Padre’s shootingstar +
rugose +
yellow with dark maroon +
thick +
short-tubular +
straight +
starchless +
copious +
connate +
homostylous +
bisexual +
valvate +
sessile +
Dry or sometimes moist slopes and flats in coastal scrub communities, and in oak and/or conifer woodlands +
nectariferous +
absent +
(1-)5-16-flowered +
simple +
usually longer +
? (?) +
denticulate +
membranous +
thin +
absent +
superior +
anatropous +
straight +
longer +
recurved +
glandular-puberulent +
hypogynous +
white;pink or violet or magenta +
connate +
4;5 +
winged +
absent +
slender +
5-carpellate +
yellow +
Pittonia +
1753 +
absent +
absent +
wavy +
tannish +
fibrous +
50;200 +
alveolate +
toothlike +
green +
connate +
4;5 +
longitudinal +
Conservation concern +
exserted +
absent +
simple +
inflated +
capitate +
not enlarged +
absent +
terminal +
farinose +
crystalline +
glabrous +
Dodecatheon clevelandii var. clevelandii +
Dodecatheon clevelandii +
variety +
long +
3mm;4mm +
pliable +
thin +
perennial +
succulent +