Limnanthes floccosa

Howell

Fl. N.W. Amer., 108. 1897.

Common names: Woolly meadowfoam
IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 182. Mentioned on page 174, 179, 180, 183.

Plants 3–25 cm; herbage glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy. Stems erect to ascending or decumbent. Leaves 1–8 cm; leaflets 5–11, blade linear to ovate-elliptic, margins entire, irregularly toothed, or lobed. Flowers urn, cup, or bell-shaped; sepals accrescent or not, ovate, obovate, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate-ovate, 4–10 mm; petals white, obovate, oblong, or obovate-cuneate, 4.5–10 mm, 1.6–1.8 times as long as wide, 0.5–1.1 times longer than sepals, apex retuse, obtuse, erose, truncate, or emarginate; filaments 2–7 mm; anthers (yellow) 0.4–1.5 mm; style 1.5–4 mm. Nutlets dark-brown or gray, 3–4.5 mm, tuberculate, tubercles straw-colored, platelike, conic, or awl-shaped.

Discussion

Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora).

Key

1 Flowers bell- or urn-shaped (petals without marginal hairs basally); anthers usually dehiscing introrsely > 2
1 Flowers cup-shaped (petals with marginal hairs basally); anthers usually dehiscing extrorsely (introrsely in subsp. pumila) > 3
2 Sepals abaxially and adaxially densely villous; nutlet tubercles awl-shaped. Limnanthes floccosa subsp. floccosa
2 Sepals abaxially and adaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy; nutlet tubercles platelike. Limnanthes floccosa subsp. bellingeriana
3 Herbage densely hairy; sepals abaxially densely hairy. Limnanthes floccosa subsp. californica
3 Herbage glabrous or sparsely hairy; sepals abaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy > 4
4 Sepals not accrescent, 7.5-8 mm, adaxially glabrous. Limnanthes floccosa subsp. pumila
4 Sepals accrescent, 8.5-9 mm, adaxially densely hairy. Limnanthes floccosa subsp. grandiflora
... more about "Limnanthes floccosa"
tetrasporangiate +
extrorse +, introrse +  and dehiscing +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
emarginate +  and truncate +
obtuse +  and retuse +
Nancy R. Morin +
Howell +
ternate +  and bipinnate +
lobed +  and entire +
linear +  and ovate-elliptic +
Woolly meadowfoam +
bell--shaped +
Calif. +  and Oreg. +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
ridged +, subglobose +  and obovoid +
rugulose +, smooth +  and tuberculate +
glabrous or +  and sparsely densely hairy +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
lobed +, toothed +  and entire +
gray +  and dark-brown +
tuberculate +
3mm +  and 4.5mm +
syncarpous +  and 2-5-carpellate +
5-lobed +
distinct +
0.5-1.1 times longer than sepals +
obovate-cuneate;oblong;obovate-cuneate;oblong;obovate +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
colporate +, colpate +  and binucleate +
2-4-aperturate +
Fl. N.W. Amer., +
arroyo1973a +
not arillate +
persistent +
list +  and count +
lanceolate-ovate;oblong-lanceolate;lanceolate-ovate;oblong-lanceolate;lanceolate;obovate;ovate +
not +  and accrescent +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
10 +  and 8 +
sprawling +  and decumbent +
erect +  and ascending or decumbent +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (?) +
Limnanthes floccosa +
Limnanthes sect. Inflexae +
species +
straw-colored +
awl--shaped +, conic +  and plate-like +
pink +, lilac +, white +, drying +, dark yellow +  and purplish +
usually longer +
pubescent +  and glabrous +