|
|
Key to PhloxView taxon page for Phlox
(For a list of species in Phlox, use the above link.) Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots. 1. Plant open, not ± matted to cushion-like; flowers generally 3–15 per inflorescence 2' Style >> stigmas, >= 4 mm; calyx membrane at least ± keeled 3. Lower leaves elliptic-ovate, 1–4 cm wide, glabrous; stem decumbent lying mostly flat on the ground but with tips curving up. , flower branches erect Upright; vertically oriented. – KR, NCoRO, NCoRH, CaR ..... P. adsurgens 3' Lower leaves lance-linear to lanceolate Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip. , < 1 cm wide, generally hairy; stem generally ± erect 4. Style 4–7 mm; stigmas below anthers, anthers below corolla throat; n CaRH (Siskiyou Co.) ..... P. hirsuta 4' Style 11–40 mm; stigmas at or above 1 or more anthers, at least 1 anther near corolla throat; SnBr, GB, DMtns 5. Corolla tube (21)35–50 mm; leaf Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets). generally lanceolate, sickle-shaped; calyx expanding in fruit; SnBr ..... P. dolichantha 5' Corolla tube 9–35(39) mm; leaf lance-linear to -ovate, not sickle-shaped; calyx not expanding in fruit; GB, DMtns ..... P. stansburyi 6' Stems generally woody; plants spaced; sagebrush scrub 7. Corolla tube 18–39 mm; internodes Segment of an axis (generally a stem) between successive positions (nodes) from which one or more structures (especially leaves, buds, branches, or flowers) arise. generally not evenly spaced; leaves generally not equal in length ..... subsp. superba 7' Corolla tube generally 8.5–19 mm; internodes evenly spaced; leaves generally equal in length ..... var. brevifolia 1' Plant dense, ± matted to cushion-like; flowers generally 1–5 per inflorescence 8. Stigmas ± = style; plant from long rhizomes – leaves in widely spaced clusters; s SNH (Tulare, Inyo cos.) ..... P. dispersa 8' Stigmas << style; plant from short rhizomes with stems clumped 9. Plant tightly cushion-like (generally difficult to determine on dried specimens); leaf generally < 4 mm 10. Leaves coarsely ciliate Having generally straight, conspicuous hairs along margins or edges. , hairy, not overlapped; SNH, SnBr, SNE ..... P. condensata 10' Leaves not coarsely ciliate, densely long-woolly-hairy, overlapped; CaRH (Loomis Peak) ..... P. muscoides 9' Plant ± matted to cushion-like but not tightly cushion-like; leaf generally > 4 mm 11. Glandular hairs generally present 13' Leaf not sharp-tipped; calyx membrane generally not keeled; California (except D)
Please use this Google Form for Contact/Feedback
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) . Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/ [accessed on ]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on .
We encourage links to these pages, but the content may not be downloaded for reposting, repackaging, redistributing, or sale in any form, without written permission from The Jepson Herbarium.
|
|
|