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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.
Annual.Key to Navarretia
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, 1° axis generally 1.
Stem: 3–24 cm; branches generally above, occasionally near base, ascending to spreading; gland-dotted, glandular-hairy.
Leaf: pinnate-lobed or -toothed; lobes or teeth ascending; lower leaves 2–5 cm, axis, lobes thread-like; upper leaves generally strap-shaped, > 1 mm wide.
Inflorescence: bract bases concave; outer bracts leaf-like, strap-shaped, generally > head; inner bracts shorter, palmate, middle lobe longest, tip acuminate or toothed.
Flower: calyx lobes lanceolate, hairy, tips glandular; corolla 9–16 mm, 2 × calyx, purple or red-purple; stamens attached in lower throat, exserted or at mouth of throat; style exserted or at mouth of throat, stigmas 3, at level of anthers.
Fruit: dehiscing tip to base.
Open, sandy or clay flats, near pools, marshes, meadows; 100–900 m. North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range Foothills, Sierra Nevada Foothills, San Francisco Bay Area.
Previous taxon: Navarretia tagetina
Next taxon: Phlox
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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