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POLEMONIACEAE

PHLOX FAMILY

Robert W. Patterson, Family Editor

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 1–many, 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):55–91; Porter 1998 Aliso 17:83–85
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NAVARRETIA

Alva G. Day

Annual, generally erect; branches spreading or ascending, hairy, glandular or puberulent
Leaves simple, alternate, generally deeply pinnately lobed or entire
Inflorescence: head; bracts pinnately to palmately toothed or lobed, spine-tipped; flowers sessile or subsessile
Flower: calyx membranous between ribs, lobes 4–5, entire or toothed, unequal, spine-tipped; corolla lobes 4–5; stigmas 2 or 3
Fruit generally ovoid, chambers 1–3
Seeds 1–many per chamber, free or stuck together, brown, gelatinous when wet
Species in genus: ± 30 species: w North America, also in Argentina, Chile
Etymology: (F. Navarrete, Spanish physician, 1700's)

Native

N. hamata Greene

Plant generally with skunk-like odor
Stem 8–30 cm, glandular-puberulent
Leaf pinnate; axis linear to widely lanceolate; lobes spreading, not hooked; tip 3-lobed, ± hooked
Inflorescence: bracts widely clasping, outer lanceolate, recurved, hooked at tip, pinnate, lobes spreading
Flower: calyx lobes entire or toothed; corolla generally purple or pinkish; stigmas 3
Fruit < calyx, dehiscing from tip to base
Seeds generally 2–10 per chamber
Ecology: Dry, sandy or rocky places in coastal or inland chaparral
Elevation: < 1100 m.
Bioregional distribution: San Francisco Bay Area, Outer South Coast Ranges, Southwestern California
Distribution outside California: Baja California
Sspp. intergrade.

Native

subsp. hamata


Leaf: cauline axis linear or lanceolate
Inflorescence generally terminal; bracts gland-dotted or glandular-hairy, lobes of hook generally unequal
Flower: calyx lobes entire or toothed; corolla 10–15 mm, bright pink or purple, tube included, throat wide, lobes 3–5 mm
Chromosomes: 2n=18
Ecology: Habitats of sp.
Bioregional distribution: Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges.Some plants from TR have wider leaves, axillary inflorescence, are much like subsp. parviloba except for larger, brighter flowers.

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