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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Mentzelia springeri
|accepted_authority=(Standley) Tidestrom in I. Tidestrom and M. T. Kittell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Ariz. New Mex.,
|place=288. 1941
|year=1941
}}
|common_names=Springer’s or Santa Fe blazingstar
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Nuttallia springeri
|authority=Standley
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Bartonia;Mentzelia springeri
|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 springeri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 500
|treatment_page=page 509
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, bushlike, with subterranean caudices. <b>Stems</b> multiple, erect or decumbent, straight; branches along entire stem, distal longest or all ± equal, antrorse, upcurved; hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade 18–56 × 1.9–5.9 mm, widest intersinus distance 0.7–2.1 mm; proximal oblanceolate to elliptic, margins dentate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 6–12, perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.8–2.1 mm; distal elliptic, lanceolate, or linear, base not clasping, margins usually dentate, rarely entire, teeth (0–)4–6, perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.4–2.1 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, needlelike, and rarely complex grappling-hook trichomes. <b>Bracts</b>: margins entire. <b>Flowers</b>: petals golden yellow, 8.7–14.2 × 3.1–4.7 mm, apex rounded, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 7–13.1 × 2–3.3 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 6.2–8.3 mm. <b>Capsules</b> cup-shaped to cylindric, 5.9–10.3 × 3.8–4.8 mm, base rounded to occasionally tapering, not longitudinally ridged. <b>Seeds</b>: coat anticlinal cell walls wavy, papillae 24–27 per cell. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Aug.
|habitat=Sparsely vegetated, steep talus and pumice slopes.
|elevation=1600–2200 m.
|distribution=N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>Mentzelia springeri is known only from Los Alamos and Sandoval counties.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mentzelia springeri
|author=
|authority=(Standley) Tidestrom in I. Tidestrom and M. T. Kittell
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Nuttallia springeri
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Aug.
|habitat=Sparsely vegetated, steep talus and pumice slopes.
|elevation=1600–2200 m.
|distribution=N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Ariz. New Mex.,
|publication year=1941
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_148.xml
|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Bartonia
|species=Mentzelia springeri
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