Clarkia breweri

(A. Gray) Greene

Pittonia 1: 141. 1887.

Common names: Brewer’s clarkia fairy fans
Basionym: Eucharidium breweri A. Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 532. 1865
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Stems erect or decumbent, to 20 cm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent. Leaves: petiole to 20 mm; blade linear to lance­olate, 2–5 cm. Inflorescences racemes, axis straight or re­curved; buds pendent. Flowers: floral-tube 20–35 mm; sepals reflexed together to 1 side, not petallike, green to magenta; corolla rotate, petals pink, broadly fan-shaped, 15–25 mm, length equal to width, with­out claw, 3-lobed, middle lobe longer and much nar­rower, linear to oblanceolate; stamens 4, filaments wider distally; ovary inconspicuously grooved; stigma exserted beyond anthers. Capsules 15–40 mm; subsessile. Seeds reddish-brown, 2–3 mm, scaly-tuberculate, crest to 0.8 mm, conspicuous. 2n = 14.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat: Woodlands, chaparral.
Elevation: 0–1000 m.

Discussion

Clarkia breweri is restricted to dry woodlands and chaparral west of the Central Valley from the San Francisco Bay area into the southern Coast Ranges in Fresno, Monterey, and San Benito counties.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Clarkia breweri"
Harlan Lewis† +  and Peter C. Hoch +
(A. Gray) Greene +
curved +, re +  and straight +
recurved +  and suberect +
Eucharidium breweri +
indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
denticulate +  and entire +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
curved +  and straight +
indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
subterete +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
elongated +
not lobed +
slender +
Brewer’s clarkia +  and fairy fans +
conspicuous +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
0–1000 m. +
basifixed +  and versatile +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
actinomorphic +
protandrous +  and bisexual +
pedicellate +  and sessile +
curved +  and straight +
indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
terete +, 4-angled +, clavate +, fusiform +, cylindrical +  and elongate +
Woodlands, chaparral. +
unicellular-papillose +
deciduous +
linear +  and oblanceolate +
numerous +  and 1 +
3-lobed +  and fan--shaped +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
Flowering Apr–Jun. +
red +, lavender +, blue-gray +, yellow +  and cream +
basal +  and cauline +
several +  and 1 +
clavate +  and globose +
reddish-brown +
few +  and numerous +
scaly-tuberculate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
green +  and magenta +
deciduous +
0 +  and 1 +
not petallike +
parenchymatous +
parietal +, axile +  and placentation +
1 +, 4 +  and 2 +
unequal +
aquatic +, amphibious +  and terrestrial +
2 times as many or as many as sepals +
unbranched +  and sparsely branched +
decumbent +  and prostrate +
decumbent +  and erect +
puberulent +  and glabrous +
slender +  and stout +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
petiolate +  and sessile +
intrapetiolar +
aquatic +, amphibious +  and terrestrial +
Clarkia subg. Eucharidium +
Clarkia breweri +
Clarkia sect. Eucharidium +
species +
3(-5)-aperturate +
short-acute +
smooth +  and erose +
papillate +