Habit: Annual, decumbent to erect.
Leaf: generally 1-odd-pinnately lobed or compound; lobes or leaflets entire to deeply lobed.
Flower: sepals (4)5; petals (4)5, generally > sepals, tips toothed or jagged; stamens 8 or 10; ovary lobes 4--5.
Fruit: mericarps 1--5, 2.5--4 mm, obovoid to nearly spheric, smooth, ridged, or tubercled.
Species In Genus: 7 species: +- coastal western North America.
Etymology: (Greek: marsh flower, from habitat)
Note: Plants reported as
Limnanthes macounii from CCo are variants of
Limnanthes douglasii (Meyers et al. 2010 Syst Bot 35:552--558).
Jepson eFlora Author: Robert Ornduff & Nancy R. Morin
Reference: Mason 1952 Univ Calif Publ Bot 25:455--512
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Limnanthes
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