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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled, generally simple and toothed (to pinnately compound); stipules 0 or generally deciduous
Inflorescence: spike, raceme, panicle, or flowers solitary in axils; bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial, opening at dawn or dusk; hypanthium sometimes prolonged beyond ovary (measured from ovary tip to sepal base); sepals generally 4(27); petals generally 4 (or as many as sepals, rarely 0), often "fading" darker; stamens generally 4 or 8(2), anthers 2-chambered, opening lengthwise, pollen generally interconnected by threads; ovary inferior, chambers generally 4 (sometimes becoming 1), placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1many per chamber, style 1, stigma 4-lobed (or lobes as many as sepals), club-shaped, or hemispheric
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal (sometimes berry or indehiscent and nut-like)
Seeds sometimes winged or hair-tufted
Genera in family: 15 genera, ± 650 species: worldwide, especially w North America; many cultivated (Clarkia, Epilobium, Fuchsia, Gaura, Oenothera )
Reference: [Munz 1965 North America Fl II 5:1278]
Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally opposite below (or clustered in axils), generally ± fine-toothed; veins generally obscure
Inflorescence: generally raceme, bracted
Flower radial or ± bilateral; sepals 4, erect; petals 4, generally notched; stamens 8, anthers attached at middle, pollen grains generally shed in 4's, generally cream-yellow; ovary chambers 4, stigma generally club-like
Fruit straight, cylindric to club-like
Seeds generally in 1 row per chamber, generally with white, deciduous hair-tuft
Species in genus: 171 species: worldwide except tropical
Recent taxonomic note: Epilobium angustifolium, Epilobium latifolium now treated in Chamerion. See Hoch 1999 Flora of Japan IIc: 241; Baum et al. 1994 Syst Bot 19:363388.
Etymology: (Greek: upon pod, from inferior ovary)
Reference: [Raven 1976 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 63:326340]
Incl Boisduvalia , Zauschneria. Most taxa polyploid; many with anthers ± = stigma self-pollinated; many hybrids.
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Perennial < 30 dm, generally strongly colonial, ± glabrous to densely strigose above
Leaves alternate, 15200 mm, lanceolate; midrib strigose below; veins ± conspicuous; petiole 27 mm
Inflorescence dense, generally canescent; bracts small, linear
Flower nodding in bud; hypanthium 0 (except as greenish disk); sepals 716 mm; petals 1025 mm, generally deep pink to magenta, entire; stamens subequal, < pistil, maturing before stigma, pollen bluish gray, shed singly; stigma 4-lobed
Fruit 40100 mm, gray-hairy; pedicel 720 mm
Seed 11.3 mm, fusiform, irregularly netted; hairs persistent
Chromosomes: 2n=72
Ecology: Common. Open places, gravel bars, roadsides, especially after fires
Elevation: < 3300 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, Klamath Ranges, Outer North Coast Ranges, High Cascade Range, High Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, White and Inyo Mountains, ne Desert Mountains
Distribution outside California: circumboreal
Flowering time: JulSep
Ssp. angustifolium (2n=36), farther n and higher, might be expected in CA
Recent taxonomic note: Chamerion angustifolium (L.) Holub subsp. circumvagum (Mosq.) Hoch
Horticultural information: SUN: 4, 5, 6 &IRR: 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21; STBL; INV; CVS non-CA.