Herbs densely strigillose, often also glandular puber­ulent, especially distally, or sometimes glandular puberulent only and then glabrate, sometimes also villous near base. Stems usually erect, sometimes decumbent, slender, wiry, usually many-branched, to 50 cm. Leaves: proximalmost not clustered near base; blade linear to very narrowly elliptic, 0.8–3.5 × 0.1–0.3 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margins sparsely serrulate, apex acute. Flowers opening near sunrise; floral tube 1.6–2.7 mm, usually moderately to sparsely pubescent inside on proximal 1/2, rarely glabrous; sepals 1.6–4 mm, reflexed in pairs; petals 2.1–4.2(–4.5) mm, each ± with 2 red dots basally; episepalous filaments 0.9–2(–2.2) mm, epipetalous filaments 0.5–1.3 mm, anthers 0.3–0.6 mm, pollen with usually less than 10% of grains 4-pored; style 2.3–4.8 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. Capsules 15–45 × 0.8–1.3 mm; subsessile. Seeds 0.6–0.8 × 0.3–0.4 mm. 2n = 28.

Phenology: Flowering Mar–Aug.
Habitat: Open, sandy soils of dunes, grasslands, desert scrub.
Elevation: 0–2100 m.

Distribution

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Calif., Mexico (Baja California).

Discussion

Camissonia strigulosa is known in the flora area from central to southern California, west of the Sierra Nevada.

P. H. Raven (1969) determined that Camissonia strigulosa is a self-compatible tetraploid and autoga­mous; it is closely related to C. benitensis, C. contorta, C. integrifolia, and C. lacustris.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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