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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine
Leaves simple or compound, cauline (or most in basal rosette), alternate or opposite; stipules 0
Inflorescence: cymes, heads, or flowers solitary
Flower: calyx generally 5-ribbed, ribs often connected by translucent membranes that are generally torn by growing fruit; corolla generally 5-lobed, radial or bilateral, salverform to bell-shaped, throat often well defined; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, attached at same or different levels, filaments of same or different lengths, pollen white, yellow, blue, or red; ovary superior, chambers generally 3, style 1, stigmas generally 3
Fruit: capsule
Seeds 1many, gelatinous or not when wet
Genera in family: 19 genera, 320 species: Am, n Eur, n Asia; some cultivated (Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox )
Recent taxonomic note: *See also revised taxonomy of Porter and Johnson 2000 Aliso 19(1):5591; Porter 1998 Aliso 17:8385
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Annual, generally erect; branches spreading or ascending, hairy, glandular or puberulent
Leaves simple, alternate, generally deeply pinnately lobed or entire
Inflorescence: head; bracts pinnately to palmately toothed or lobed, spine-tipped; flowers sessile or subsessile
Flower: calyx membranous between ribs, lobes 45, entire or toothed, unequal, spine-tipped; corolla lobes 45; stigmas 2 or 3
Fruit generally ovoid, chambers 13
Seeds 1many per chamber, free or stuck together, brown, gelatinous when wet
Species in genus: ± 30 species: w North America, also in Argentina, Chile
Etymology: (F. Navarrete, Spanish physician, 1700's)
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Plant spreading, long-hairy, glandular; odor skunk-like
Stem 1060 cm
Leaves: lower 12-pinnate, axis and lobes linear; upper with axis shorter, wider, lobes narrowly lanceolate, generally forked on back, spiny
Inflorescence: outer bracts leaf-like, < leaves, middle lobe lanceolate, wider than lateral
Flower: calyx 710 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate; corolla 912 mm, > calyx, deep blue, lobes 2 mm; stamens attached in tube, included; style included, stigmas 3
Fruit dehiscing from tip to base
Seeds 811 per chamber
Ecology: Common. Open, wet, gravelly flats, slopes
Elevation: < 800 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast Ranges, n Sierra Nevada Foothills (Sacramento, Amador cos.) San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia
Horticultural information: SUN: 4, 5, 6 &IRR: 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.