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, hairy, +- minutely glandular. Stem: erect, generally branched. Leaf: alternate, dark green, generally deeply pinnate-lobed, +- palmate-lobed upward; lobes linear to lanceolate, blunt-tipped, central lobe widest. Inflorescence: flowers generally in clusters. Flower: calyx tube narrowly membranous between lobes, lobes blunt-tipped, translucent below in fruit, membrane splitting; corolla radial or bilateral, funnel-shaped, throat narrow, tapered, lobes narrowly obovate; stamens attached in tube. Fruit: < calyx, spheric; valves generally falling. Seed: 1--3 per chamber, concave, black or brown, gelatinous when wet, ends rounded. Etymology: (Greek: other leaf) eFlora Treatment Author: Leigh A. Johnson & Alva G. Day Reference: Grant & Grant 1955 Aliso 3:93--110
Stem: Puberulent; glands short-stalked. Leaf: widest leaves or lobes 2--4 mm wide, lobes 0--11, linear to narrowly lanceolate. Inflorescence: open or dense; flowers 1 or 2--8 in clusters. Flower: corolla 6--10 mm, dark blue-purple, lobes 1--3 mm; stamens +- equal, included to +- exserted; style included. Seed: 1 per chamber, black.
Allophyllum gilioides (Benth.) A.D. Grant & V.E. Grant subsp. violaceum (A. Heller) A.G. Day
NATIVE Stem: generally +- 15 cm, slender. Leaf: +- cauline, entire or 3--7-lobed, lobes 0.5--3 mm wide. Inflorescence: open; flowers 1 or loosely paired or in 3s; pedicels generally elongating in fruit. Flower: corolla 5--8 mm. Ecology: Open, sandy, generally damp or grassy areas; Elevation: 1200--2900 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCoR, SN, SnFrB, SCoR, TR, PR, n SNE, DMtns; Distribution Outside California: western Nevada, Arizona, Baja California. Flowering Time: May--Jul Synonyms: Allophyllum violaceum (A. Heller) A.D. Grant & V.E. Grant Jepson eFlora Author: Leigh A. Johnson & Alva G. Day Reference: Grant & Grant 1955 Aliso 3:93--110 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Allophyllum gilioides subsp. gilioides Next taxon: Allophyllum glutinosum
Citation for this treatment: Leigh A. Johnson & Alva G. Day 2012, Allophyllum gilioides subsp. violaceum, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=49080, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.
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