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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, hairy, ± glandular; glands minute
Stem erect, leafy, generally branched
Leaves alternate, dark green, generally deeply pinnately lobed, ± palmately lobed upward; lobes linear to lanceolate, blunt-tipped, central lobe widest
Inflorescence: flowers generally in clusters
Flower: calyx lobes blunt-tipped, tube narrowly membranous between ribs, ribs translucent below in fruit, membrane splitting; corolla funnel-shaped, radial or bilateral, throat narrow, tapered, lobes narrowly obovate; stamens attached in tube; stigmas 3
Fruit spheric, < calyx; valves generally falling
Seeds 13 per chamber, concave, black or brown, gelatinous when wet; ends rounded
Species in genus: 4 species: w North America
Etymology: (Greek: other leaf)
Reference: [Grant & Grant 1955 El Aliso 3:93110]
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Plant with skunk-like odor
Stem < 60 cm; glands long- or short-stalked
Leaf: lobes 313, 48 mm wide, ± lanceolate
Inflorescence open or dense; flowers 28 in clusters; pedicels elongating in fruit
Flower: corolla 822 mm, tube reddish purple, lobes 24 mm, pink; stamens unequal, included or longest exserted; style included or exserted
Seeds 13 per chamber, brown
Chromosomes: 2n=16,18
Ecology: Sandy areas, chaparral, woodlands
Elevation: 3001800 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, Inner North Coast Ranges, s Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada Foothills, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges.