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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Mentzelia procera
|accepted_authority=(Wooton & Standley) J. J. Schenk & L. Hufford
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=57: 247. 2010
|year=2010
}}
|common_names=Upright blazingstar
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Nuttallia procera
|authority=Wooton & Standley
|rank=species
|publication_title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|publication_place=16: 150. 1913
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mentzelia pumila var. procera
|authority=(Wooton & Standley) J. Darlington
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Bartonia;Mentzelia procera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Loasaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mentzelia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Mentzelia sect. Bartonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mentzelia procera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 502, 524
|treatment_page=page 523
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>biennial, usually candelabra-form, rarely bushlike. <b>Stems</b> solitary, erect, straight; branches distal or occasionally along entire stem, distal or proximal longest, antrorse, straight or upcurved; hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade 38.3–108 × 5.3–14.9 mm, widest intersinus distance 1.7–3.9 mm; proximal oblanceolate to elliptic, margins pinnate, lobes 14–22(–26), perpendicular to leaf axis, 1.8–4.5 mm; distal elliptic to lanceolate, base not clasping, margins pinnate, lobes 6–18, perpendicular to leaf axis, 1.3–4.5 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and occasionally needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. <b>Bracts</b>: margins entire or toothed to pinnate. <b>Flowers</b>: petals light yellow, 9.5–16.8 × 3.4–5.6 mm, apex usually rounded, rarely acute, glabrous abaxially; stamens light yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 8.2–14.6 × 2.3–3.4 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 7.1–12.6 mm. <b>Capsules</b> cup-shaped to cylindric, 9.8–18.8 × 5.2–7.3 mm, base tapering, not longitudinally ridged. <b>Seeds</b>: coat anticlinal cell walls sinuous, papillae 28–68 per cell.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Dry hillsides, roadcuts, roadsides, sandy, clayey, or silty soils.
|elevation=1400–2500 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.;n Mexico.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Mentzelia procera
|authority=(Wooton & Standley) J. J. Schenk & L. Hufford
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Mentzelia pumila var. procera
|basionyms=Nuttallia procera
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Dry hillsides, roadcuts, roadsides, sandy, clayey, or silty soils.
|elevation=1400–2500 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.;n Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=2010
|special status=
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|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Bartonia
|species=Mentzelia procera
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