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Annual to perennial herb (to tree).
Leaf: cauline or basal, alternate, opposite, or whorled, generally simple and toothed (to pinnately compound); stipules 0 or generally deciduous.
Inflorescence: spike, raceme, panicle, or flowers 1 in axils; bracted.
Flower: generally bisexual, generally radial, often opening at either dawn or dusk; hypanthium generally prolonged beyond ovary (measured from ovary tip to sepal base); sepals 4(2–7); petals 4(2–7, rarely 0), often fading darker; stamens 2 × or = sepals in number, anthers 2-chambered, opening lengthwise, pollen interconnected by threads; ovary inferior, chambers generally as many as sepals (sometimes becoming 1), placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1–many per chamber, style 1, stigma 4-lobed (or lobes as many as sepals), club-shaped, spheric, or hemispheric.
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal (sometimes berry or indehiscent and nut-like).
Seed: sometimes winged or hair-tufted.
22 genera, ± 657 species: worldwide, especially w North America; many cultivated (Clarkia, Epilobium, Fuchsia, Oenothera). [Wagner et al. 2007 Syst Bot Monogr 83:1–240] Gaura moved to Oenothera. Fuchsia magellanica Lam. naturalized in n CA. —Scientific Editors: Robert Patterson, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Unabridged references: [Munz 1965 North America Fl II 5:1–278]

Key to Onagraceae

Annual to subshrub or emergent aquatic, often floating, rooting at nodes.
Leaf: alternate to opposite.
Inflorescence: spike; flowers 1 per bract.
Flower: radial; hypanthium 0; sepals 4–5(7), persistent; petals (0)4–5(7), white to yellow; stamens 4 or 10(12), pollen generally shed singly (in CA); stigma club-shaped to spheric.
Fruit: irregularly dehiscing; wall thick or thin.
Seed: free or embedded in woody piece of fruit wall.
82 species: ± worldwide. (C.G. Ludwig, German botanist, physician, 1709–1773) [Raven 1963 Reinwardtia 6:327–427] Many polyploids.

Perennial 1–5 dm, matted.
Stem: prostrate or ascending, rooting at nodes, well branched, ± glabrous.
Leaf: opposite, < 5 cm; blade narrowly elliptic to subovate, entire, ± glabrous.
Inflorescence: pedicel 0–0.5 mm.
Flower: sepals 4, 1.1–2 mm; petals 0; stamens 4, anthers 0.2–0.4 mm; ovary stripes 4, green.
Fruit: erect, 1.5–5 mm, ± oblong, minutely strigose.
Seed: 0.5–0.7 mm, free from fruit wall.
2n=16. Roadside ditches, wet meadows, pond margins; < 1000 m. w Northwestern California, n Sierra Nevada, c High Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin Valley, Central Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast;

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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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