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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Mentzelia albescens
|accepted_authority=(Gillies ex Arnott) Bentham & Hooker f. ex Grisebach
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen
|place=19: 150. 1874
|year=1874
}}
|common_names=Wavy-leaf blazingstar
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Bartonia albescens
|authority=Gillies ex Arnott
|rank=species
|publication_title=Edinburgh J. Nat. Geogr. Sci.
|publication_place=3: 273. 1831
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=B. wrightii
|authority=(A. Gray) Walpers
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Bartonia;Mentzelia albescens
|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 albescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 501
|treatment_page=page 518
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>biennial, candelabra-form. <b>Stems</b> solitary, erect, straight; branches distal, distal longest, antrorse, straight; hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade 31–92(–157) × 10.5–27.6(–41) mm, widest intersinus distance 5.2–23.3(–29) mm; proximal lanceolate or elliptic, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 8–22, slightly antrorse, 1.8–6 mm; distal lanceolate, base clasping, margins usually serrate to pinnate, occasionally entire, teeth or lobes (0–)10–20, slightly antrorse, 1.4–7.6 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. <b>Bracts</b>: margins entire. <b>Flowers</b>: petals golden yellow, 5.7–9.2 × 1.3–3 mm, apex usually acute, occasionally rounded, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 4.7–8.4 × 1–2.4 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 3.5–5.4 mm. <b>Capsules</b> cylindric, 13.6–23.5 × 5.1–7.8 mm, base tapering, not or slightly longitudinally ridged. <b>Seeds</b>: coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–17 per cell. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Dry grasslands, xeric habitats of arroyos, roadsides, roadcuts, washes, chat piles, slopes.
|elevation=200–1600 m.
|distribution=Kans.;Mo.;Okla.;Tex.;South America (Argentina;Chile).
|discussion=<p>Phylogenetic analyses (J. J. Schenk and L. Hufford 2011) recovered representative populations of <i>Mentzelia albescens</i> from Texas and South America in a monophyletic group. Phylogenetic placement of these populations among lineages in sect. Bartonia, as well as a lack of morphological differentiation among North American and South American populations, suggests a recent dispersal to South America. In the flora area, this species is native to central and western Texas, and introduced in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.</p>
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name=Mentzelia albescens
|authority=(Gillies ex Arnott) Bentham & Hooker f. ex Grisebach
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=B. wrightii
|basionyms=Bartonia albescens
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Dry grasslands, xeric habitats of arroyos, roadsides, roadcuts, washes, chat piles, slopes.
|elevation=200–1600 m.
|distribution=Kans.;Mo.;Okla.;Tex.;South America (Argentina;Chile).
|reference=None
|publication title=Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen
|publication year=1874
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Bartonia
|species=Mentzelia albescens
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