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|accepted_name=Clarkia unguiculata
|accepted_authority=Lindley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
|place=23: sub plate 1981. 1837
|year=1837
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|common_names=Elegant or woodland clarkia;mountain garland
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Onagraceae;Onagraceae subfam. Onagroideae;Onagraceae tribe Onagreae;Clarkia;Clarkia sect. Phaeostoma;Clarkia subsect. Phaeostoma;Clarkia unguiculata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Onagraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Onagraceae subfam. Onagroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Onagraceae tribe Onagreae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Clarkia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Clarkia sect. Phaeostoma]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subsection</small>[[Clarkia subsect. Phaeostoma]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Clarkia unguiculata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect, 30–100 cm, glabrous, glaucous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 0–10 mm; blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1–6 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b> open racemes, sometimes branched, axis erect; buds pendent. <b>Flowers</b>: floral tube 2–5 mm; sepals reflexed together to 1 side, green to dark red, sparsely to densely puberulent abaxially, with longer, straight, spreading hairs to 3 mm; corolla rotate, petals lavender-pink to salmon or dark reddish purple, triangular or diamond-shaped to suborbiculate, 10–25 mm, claw slender, equal to or longer than blade, entire, rarely somewhat expanded at base; stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers red, inner smaller, paler; ovary with hairs as on sepals; stigma exserted beyond anthers. <b>Capsules</b> 15–30 mm. <b>Seeds</b> brown, 1–1.5 mm, tuberculate, crest inconspicuous. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Sep.
|habitat=Woodlands.
|elevation=0–1500 m.
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Clarkia unguiculata is a widely distributed species in California, and occurs throughout much of the southern two-thirds of the state in appropriate woodland habitats.</p><!--
--><p>Clarkia unguiculata is ancestral to C. exilis, C. springvillensis, and C. tembloriensis. It is one of the parents of the tetraploid species C. delicata and may have been involved in the origin of C. heterandra.</p>
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name=Clarkia unguiculata
|authority=Lindley
|rank=species
|parent rank=subsection
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Onagraceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Sep.
|habitat=Woodlands.
|elevation=0–1500 m.
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
|publication year=1837
|special status=
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|subfamily=Onagraceae subfam. Onagroideae
|tribe=Onagraceae tribe Onagreae
|genus=Clarkia
|section=Clarkia sect. Phaeostoma
|subsection=Clarkia subsect. Phaeostoma
|species=Clarkia unguiculata
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