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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.
Stem: generally erect; branches ascending or spreading; glabrous to generally hairy, often glandular.
Leaf: simple, alternate (lowermost opposite), entire to generally deeply pinnate-lobed.
Inflorescence: generally head, bracts pinnate- to palmate-toothed or -lobed, spine-tipped ( flower 1–2, pedicels elongate, bracts entire, not spine-tipped).
Flower: calyx lobes 4–5, equal, entire or toothed, or unequal, spine-tipped; corolla lobes 4–5; stigmas 2 or 3.
Fruit: generally ovoid, chambers 1–3.
Seed: 1–many per fruit, free or stuck together, brown, gelatinous when wet.
2n=18.
35 species: w North America, Argentina, Chile. (F.F. Navarrete, Spanish physician, ?–1742) [Porter & Johnson 2000 Aliso 19:55–91] Revised taxonomy, too late for full treatment here, including Navarretia linearifolia (Howell) L.A. Johnson subsp. linearifolia, a ± cryptic segregate of Navarretia sinistra, and Navarretia linearifolia subsp. pinnatisecta (H. Mason & A.D. Grant) L.A. Johnson [Navarretia sinistra subsp. pinnatisecta] (Johnson & Cairns-Heath 2010 Syst Bot 35:618–628).
Unabridged references: [Spencer & Porter 1997 Syst Bot 22:649–668; Porter 1996 Aliso 15:57–77]

Plant erect to spreading, generally dense, 1° axes 1–several.
Stem: 3–8 cm, generally as wide as high, glandular-puberulent, brown or red.
Leaf: green, pinnate-lobed; axis < 0.5 mm wide; lobes above base, needle-like, entire or forked.
Inflorescence: outer bracts like leaves but axis wider, shorter, bract base flat.
Flower: calyx 6–9 mm, sinuses U-shaped, lobes needle-like, hairy adaxially; corolla 6–7 mm, yellow, tube minutely glandular abaxially, lobes ± 1 mm; stamens, style exserted; stigmas 3, minute.
Fruit: obovoid, dehiscing from tip.
Open, wet areas, meadows, streamsides; 1000–3300 m. High Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, Great Basin Floristic Province, Desert Mountains;

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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.