Difference between revisions of "Limnanthes floccosa"
Fl. N.W. Amer., 108. 1897.
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Plants 3–25 cm; herbage glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy. Stems erect to ascending or decumbent. Leaves 1–8 cm; leaflets 5–11, blade linear to ovate-elliptic, margins entire, irregularly toothed, or lobed. Flowers urn-, cup-, or bell-shaped; sepals accrescent or not, ovate, obovate, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate-ovate, 4–10 mm; petals white, obovate, oblong, or obovate-cuneate, 4.5–10 mm, 1.6–1.8 times as long as wide, 0.5–1.1 times longer than sepals, apex retuse, obtuse, erose, truncate, or emarginate; filaments 2–7 mm; anthers (yellow) 0.4–1.5 mm; style 1.5–4 mm. Nutlets dark brown or gray, 3–4.5 mm, tuberculate, tubercles straw-colored, platelike, conic, or awl-shaped.
Distribution
w United States.
Discussion
Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora).
Selected References
Lower Taxa
Key
| 1 | Flowers bell- or urn-shaped (petals without marginal hairs basally); anthers usually dehiscing introrsely | > 2 |
| 1 | Flowers cup-shaped (petals with marginal hairs basally); anthers usually dehiscing extrorsely (introrsely in subsp. pumila) | > 3 |
| 2 | Sepals abaxially and adaxially densely villous; nutlet tubercles awl-shaped. | Limnanthes floccosa subsp. floccosa |
| 2 | Sepals abaxially and adaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy; nutlet tubercles platelike. | Limnanthes floccosa subsp. bellingeriana |
| 3 | Herbage densely hairy; sepals abaxially densely hairy. | Limnanthes floccosa subsp. californica |
| 3 | Herbage glabrous or sparsely hairy; sepals abaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy | > 4 |
| 4 | Sepals not accrescent, 7.5-8 mm, adaxially glabrous. | Limnanthes floccosa subsp. pumila |
| 4 | Sepals accrescent, 8.5-9 mm, adaxially densely hairy. | Limnanthes floccosa subsp. grandiflora |