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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine.
Leaf: simple or compound, cauline (or most basal), alternate or opposite; stipules 0.
Inflorescence: cymes, heads, clusters, or flower 1; bracts in involucres or not.
Flower: sepals generally 5, fused at base, translucent membrane generally connecting lobes, torn by fruit; corolla generally 5-lobed, radial or bilateral, salverform to bell-shaped, throat often well defined; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, attached at >= 1 level, filaments of >= 1 length, pollen white, yellow, blue, or red; ovary superior, chambers generally 3, style 1, stigmas generally 3.
Fruit: capsule.
Seed: 1–many, when wetted swelling or not, gelatinous or not.
26 genera, 314 species: Am, n Eur, n Asia; some cultivated (Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox). [Porter & Johnson 2000 Aliso 19:55–91] Leptodactylon moved to Linanthus. —Scientific Editors: Robert Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti.

Key to Polemoniaceae

Annual, perennial herb.
Stem: generally erect, generally branched from base.
Leaf: cauline, alternate or opposite, entire or lobes 3–9, pinnate or palmate, linear to narrow- lanceolate or spoon-shaped.
Inflorescence: open or dense clusters or cyme or flower 1; bracts leaf-like; flowers sessile or not.
Flower: corolla funnel-shaped, salverform, or bell-shaped; stamens attached at 1 level, included or exserted, pollen yellow.
Fruit: capsule, valves 3(4).
Seed: generally many, when wet gelatinous to not.
24 species: w North America. (Greek: flax flower) [Porter & Johnson 2000 Aliso 19:55–91] Other taxa in TJM (1993) moved to Leptosiphon.

Annual, glandular-hairy.
Stem: 1–12 cm.
Leaf: opposite or ± alternate; lobes 8–15 mm, linear.
Inflorescence: dense; flowers 3–7.
Flower: calyx 10 mm, membrane much wider than lobes; corolla funnel-shaped, white, tube 1–2 mm, throat 6–8 mm, yellow, lobes 5–10 mm, widely lanceolate, ± entire, base with 2 dark purple marks; stamens included.
Fruit: < calyx, obovoid.
Seed: 6–12, not gelatinous when wet.
Dry rocky slopes; 1700–2800 m. San Gabriel Mountains.

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Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].

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Bioregions in which taxon occurs	Red area (if present) is the part of the bioregion lying between the upper and lower elevation limits of the taxon; markers link to CCH specimen records. If the markers are obscured, reload the page [or change window size and reload]. Yellow markers indicate records that may have georeferencing or identification issues.
Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates.	Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. View all CCH records   CCH collections by month Duplicates counted once; synonyms included. Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa. Blue line denotes Manual flowering time.