Common Name: EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY Habit: Annual to perennial herb (to tree). Leaf: cauline or basal, alternate, opposite, or whorled, generally simple and toothed (to pinnately compound); stipules 0 or generally deciduous. Inflorescence: spike, raceme, panicle, or flowers 1 in axils; bracted. Flower: generally bisexual, generally radial, often opening at either dawn or dusk; hypanthium generally prolonged beyond ovary (measured from ovary tip to sepal base); sepals 4(2--7); petals 4(2--7, rarely 0), often fading darker; stamens 2 × or = sepals in number, anthers 2-chambered, opening lengthwise, pollen interconnected by threads; ovary inferior, chambers generally as many as sepals (sometimes becoming 1), placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1--many per chamber, style 1, stigma 4-lobed (or lobes as many as sepals), club-shaped, spheric, or hemispheric. Fruit: capsule, loculicidal (sometimes berry or indehiscent and nut-like). Seed: sometimes winged or hair-tufted. Genera In Family: 22 genera, +- 657 species: worldwide, especially western North America; many cultivated (Clarkia, Epilobium, Fuchsia, Oenothera). Note:Gaura moved to Oenothera. Fuchsia magellanica Lam. naturalized in northern California. eFlora Treatment Author: Warren L. Wagner & Peter C. Hoch, family description, key to genera, treatment of genera by Warren L. Wagner, except as noted Scientific Editor: Robert W. Patterson, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Habit: Perennial herb, often clumped or forming large colonies by rhizomes. Stem: generally unbranched, strigose or glabrous. Leaf: alternate, generally +- fine-toothed; veins conspicuous or obscure. Inflorescence: raceme. Flower: nodding in bud; hypanthium 0 (except as +- green disk); +- bilateral; sepals 4, spreading; petals 4, entire; stamens 8, subequal, maturing before stigma, anthers attached at middle, pollen grains shed singly, generally blue-gray; stigma spreading-4-lobed. Fruit: straight, cylindric. Seed: many in 1 row per chamber, irregularly netted, with persistent white hair-tuft.
eFlora Treatment Author: Peter C. Hoch Reference: Wagner et al. 2007 Syst Bot Monogr 83:78--81 Unabridged Reference: Raven 1976 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 63:326--340
Chamerion latifolium (L.) Holub
NATIVE Habit: Plant < 7 dm, clumped from woody caudex, +- glaucous to densely strigose. Leaf: 1--10 cm, elliptic to widely lanceolate, glabrous or hairy on margins and veins, +- obtuse to acute. Inflorescence: generally +- strigose. Flower: petals (white) pink to rose-purple; stamens +- = pistil; pollen +- gray. Fruit: 3--10.5 cm, +- glabrous to gray-hairy; pedicel 5--18 mm. Seed: 1.3--2.4 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=36(California),72. Ecology: Gravel bars, talus slopes, glacial outwashes; Elevation: 2500--3100 m. Bioregional Distribution: n&c SNH; Distribution Outside California: +- circumboreal. Flowering Time: Jul--Aug Synonyms: Epilobium latifolium L. Jepson eFlora Author: Peter C. Hoch Reference: Wagner et al. 2007 Syst Bot Monogr 83:78--81 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Chamerion angustifolium subsp. circumvagum Next taxon: Chylismia
Botanical illustration including Chamerion latifolium
Citation for this treatment: Peter C. Hoch 2012, Chamerion latifolium, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=19029, accessed on December 07, 2023.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2023, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 07, 2023.
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