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Annual or perennial herb, generally fleshy
Stems generally glabrous
Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, sometimes stipuled
Inflorescence various
Flower bisexual, radial; sepals generally 2(8), free or fused at base; petals 318, free or ± fused; stamens 1many, free or inserted on corolla; ovary superior or partly inferior, chamber 1, placenta free-central or basal; styles 28, generally fused at base
Fruit: capsule, circumscissile or 23-valved
Seeds 1many, generally black, generally shiny
Genera in family: ± 20 genera, ± 400 species: generally temp Am, Australia, s Africa; some cultivated (Lewisia, Portulaca, Calandrinia )
Reference: [Bogle 1969 J Arnold Arbor 50:566598]
Family description and key to genera by Dieter H. Wilken & Walter A. Kelley.
Perennial, generally from short, thick, ± branched taproot, topped by short, sometimes very thick caudex at or below ground level, sometimes from spheric corm
Stem: aerial parts restricted to inflorescence
Leaves generally in basal rosette, simple, entire or not; base wide; margin generally ± translucent
Inflorescence ± scapose; stems 1many, generally leafless but bracted, sometimes disjointing in age, 1many-flowered
Flower: sepals 28, free, persistent; petals 418, variously colored, overlapping in bud; stamens 5many; styles 28, fused at base, stigmas 28, thread-like
Fruit: capsule, translucent, spheric or ovoid, circumscissile near base
Seeds 2many, dark, generally shiny, smooth or finely tuberculate
Species in genus: ± 20 species: w North America
Etymology: (Captain Meriwether Lewis, 17741809, of Lewis & Clark Expedition)
Reference: [Elliott 1966 Bull Alpine Gard Soc 34]
Horticultural information: DRN, IRR: pots and rock gardens only; DRY when dormant; DFCLT.
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Root + caudex short, thick, tapered to slender root
Leaves many, in dense rosette, 38 cm, narrowly oblanceolate, fleshy, entire, tapered to base; tip blunt
Inflorescence: stems several, 1230 cm, each with a spreading, many-flowered panicle; flowers exserted from leaves; bracts among flowers and few below, gland-toothed; pedicels ± = flowers, slender
Flower: sepals 2, ± 1/4 X corolla, roundish, gland-toothed; petals 710, 611 mm, ovate, rose, pink, or white with pink lines, tip notched; stamens 56; stigmas 23
Chromosomes: n=15
Ecology: Granite slopes, cliffs
Elevation: 21002300 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges (Trinity Co.)
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia, Idaho
CA plants under this name are probably hybrid L. leana X L. cotyledon.