Common Name: PHLOX FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine. Leaf: simple or compound, cauline (or most basal), alternate or opposite; stipules 0. Inflorescence: cymes, heads, clusters, or flower 1; bracts in involucres or not. Flower: sepals generally 5, fused at base, translucent membrane generally connecting lobes, torn by fruit; corolla generally 5-lobed, radial or bilateral, salverform to bell-shaped, throat often well defined; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, attached at >= 1 level, filaments of >= 1 length, pollen white, yellow, blue, or red; ovary superior, chambers generally 3, style 1, stigmas generally 3. Fruit: capsule. Seed: 1--many, when wetted swelling or not, gelatinous or not. Genera In Family: 26 genera, 314 species: America, northern Europe, northern Asia; some cultivated (Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox). Note:Leptodactylon moved to Linanthus. eFlora Treatment Author: Robert W. Patterson, family description, key to genera, except as noted Scientific Editor: Robert W. Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Habit: Annual, perennial herb, subshrub. Stem: generally erect, generally branched from base. Leaf: cauline, alternate or opposite, entire or lobes 3--9, pinnate or palmate, linear to narrow-lanceolate or spoon-shaped. Inflorescence: open or dense clusters or cyme or flower 1; bracts leaf-like; flowers sessile or not. Flower: corolla funnel-shaped, salverform, or bell-shaped; stamens attached at 1 level, included or exserted, pollen yellow. Fruit: capsule, valves 3(4). Seed: generally many, when wet gelatinous to not. Etymology: (Greek: flax flower) Note: Other taxa in TJM (1993) moved to Leptosiphon. eFlora Treatment Author: Robert W. Patterson & J. Mark Porter Reference: Porter & Johnson 2000 Aliso 19:55--91; Fraga & Bell 2012 Aliso 30: 97--102; Porter & Patterson 2015 Aliso 32:55--88
Linanthus orcuttii (Parry & A. Gray) Jeps.
NATIVE Habit: Annual. Stem: 5--10 cm, sparsely puberulent. Leaf: lobes 5--12 mm, linear, hairy. Inflorescence: cluster or flower 1; flower sessile. Flower: calyx 6--10 mm, membrane as wide as lobes; corolla funnel-shaped, tube 5--15 mm, stout, white grading to purple (on any given tube), throat 3--5 mm, white or yellow, lobes 5--8 mm, generally pink, with 2 purple marks at base, 1 at each sinus; stamens included or at mouth. Fruit: < calyx, obovoid. Seed: 15--30, not gelatinous when wet. Ecology: Chaparral, pine forest, desert scrub; Elevation: 1100--2150 m. Bioregional Distribution: PR, D; Distribution Outside California: Baja California. Flowering Time: Apr--Jun Note: Plants from SnBr assigned here in TJM2 now treated as Linanthus bernardinus. Jepson eFlora Author: Robert W. Patterson & J. Mark Porter Reference: Porter & Johnson 2000 Aliso 19:55--91; Fraga & Bell 2012 Aliso 30: 97--102; Porter & Patterson 2015 Aliso 32:55--88 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Linanthus maculatus subsp. maculatus Next taxon: Linanthus parryae
Botanical illustration including Linanthus orcuttii
Citation for this treatment: Robert W. Patterson & J. Mark Porter 2021, Linanthus orcuttii, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 9, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=31067, accessed on January 23, 2025.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on January 23, 2025.
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