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IPOMOPSIS SCARLET GILIA

Dieter H. Wilken


Annual, perennial herb, [± subshrub].
Stem: generally branched at base.
Leaf: alternate, simple, smaller upward, entire to pinnate- or palmate-lobed; lobes generally small-pointed at tip.
Inflorescence: clusters, lateral or open to head-like, terminal.
Flower: calyx generally bell-shaped, tube, sinuses membranous, glabrous to hairy, lobes generally small-pointed at tip; corolla generally salverform, radial or bilateral, white to red or lavender.
Seed: slender, angled, ± winged, white to light brown.
30 species: w North America, se US, s South America. (Greek: like Ipomoea) Perennial cross-, annual generally self-pollinated. Ipomopsis depressa moved to Loeseliastrum.
Unabridged references: [Grant & Wilken 1988 Bot Gaz 149:443–449]

Key to Ipomopsis

1. Corolla tube generally < 10 mm; inflorescence open to head-like, terminal

2. Annual

3. Corolla ± bilateral, deep pink to white mottled pink; stamens exserted ..... [I. effusa]

3' Corolla radial, generally white; stamens generally included ..... I. polycladon

2' Perennial ..... I. congesta

4. Lf pinnate-lobed ..... subsp. congesta

4' Lf palmate-lobed ..... subsp. montana

1' Corolla tube 10–45 mm; inflorescence clusters, lateral

5. Corolla white to pink or lavender, ± speckled at lobe bases, tube 25–45 mm ..... I. tenuituba

5' Corolla generally red, mottled white on lobes, throat or not, tube 5–30 mm

6. Corolla ± bilateral, lobes notched; stamens strongly exserted ..... I. tenuifolia

6' Corolla radial, lobes acute to acuminate; stamens included or exserted

7. Corolla tube 10–20 mm; anthers included; e DMtns ..... I. arizonica

7' Corolla tube 20–30 mm; anthers exserted; KR, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, GB ..... I. aggregata

8. Pollen white, light yellow, or ± blue; cauline leaf lobes acute ..... subsp. aggregata

8' Pollen generally blue; cauline leaf lobes blunt to rounded ..... subsp. bridgesii

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