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.
Common Name: WOOLLY-STAR Habit: Annual, perennial, or subshrub; often woolly, glandular or not. Stem: generally erect, branching from base or above, sometimes unbranched. Leaf: cauline, alternate, entire to pinnately lobed; lobes generally linear or lanceolate. Inflorescence: terminal, head-like or flower occasionally 1, bracted, lightly to densely woolly; bracts leaf-like; flowers sessile or subsessile. Flower: calyx lobes equal to unequal, lightly to densely woolly, sometimes glandular-puberulent; corolla funnel-shaped to salverform, radial or bilateral, white or blue to purple or yellow; stamens fused to corolla at base, equal or unequal, anthers sagittate, pollen white to blue; ovary 3-chambered, style included or exserted, stigma 3-lobed. Fruit: capsule loculicidal. Seed: 1--11 per chamber. Etymology: (Greek: woolly star) eFlora Treatment Author: Sarah J. De Groot Reference: De Groot 2016 Aliso 34(2):25--152.
Common Name: PERENNIAL WOOLLY-STAR, GIANT WOOLLY-STAR Habit: Subshrub or perennial herb from woody caudex, glabrous to woolly. Stem: 8--90 cm, erect or spreading, often branched from base and sometimes above, outer layers sometimes flaking, axillary short shoots sometimes present. Leaf: 10--50 mm, woolly to subglabrous, lobes 0 or 1--15, linear to lanceolate. Inflorescence: generally terminal, sometimes persisting, lightly to densely woolly, flowers 1--40+. Flower: calyx 5--11 mm, woolly, sometimes glandular, lobes equal or subequal to unequal; corolla 10.5--33 mm, radial, funnel-shaped to salverform, tube 4.5--19.5 mm, white to pale blue, lavender, pink, or purple, base sometimes yellowish, throat +- 0.9--5.7 mm, white to pale blue to lavender, occasionally purple, pale yellow, or pink, tube plus throat 6.4--23 mm, lobes 3.5--11 mm, white to deep blue, veins often darker blue or purple, occasionally spotted; stamens exserted 2.1--7 mm beyond corolla sinuses, equaling or < corolla lobes, attached <= 3 mm below sinus, free portion of stamen 4--10 mm, equal to subequal, anthers 2--4 mm; pistil +- 11.5--30 mm, shorter in younger flowers, style +- 10--27 mm, white to pale blue, lavender, or purple, stigma lobes 0.5--1.5 mm, often white. Fruit: capsule +- (1.3)2.5--6 mm, tan, seeds generally +- 1--11 per chamber. Seed: (1.3)1.8--3.5 mm, tan to brown or gray-brown, elliptic to oblong or angular. Note: Probably a species complex, needs study.
Eriastrum densifolium (Benth.) H. Mason subsp. mohavense (T.T. Craig) H. Mason
NATIVE Habit: Perennial, woody at or above base, outer layers flaking off old stems, otherwise white-woolly. Stem: 8--30 cm, branches erect to ascending, sometimes with short axillary shoots. Leaf: 10--32 mm white-woolly to gray-green, rigid, primary axis 2--3.5 mm wide, curved to recurved, axis base wider than tip; lobes 0 or (1)5--9, spine-tipped. Inflorescence: heads several per branch, densely woolly, 3--13-flowered; bract lateral lobes 1--4 mm long. Flower: calyx 6--10 mm, lobes unequal, often hidden by woolly hairs; corolla 14--24 mm, narrowly funnel-shaped to salverform, tube 8--15.5 mm, white to pale blue or purplish, throat 0.9--2.9 mm, white to pale blue, tube + throat 13.3--17.9 mm, lobes 4.7--6.5 mm, pale blue or pale lavender, sometimes almost white, veins often slightly darker; stamens exserted >= 2.6 mm past corolla sinuses, attached 0.1--0.9 mm below sinuses, free portion 4--5 mm, subequal, anthers 2.5--3.25 mm; pistil 13--20.5 mm, ovules (8)12--15 total, 2--5 per ovary chamber. Fruit: capsule +- 2.5--4(6) mm. Seed: +- 2.2--2.8 mm, tan, elliptic. Ecology: Floodplains, washes, open slopes, in desert scrub; Elevation: 700--1100 m. Bioregional Distribution: s SNH, Teh, SNE, DMoj. Flowering Time: Jun Jepson eFlora Author: Sarah J. De Groot Reference: De Groot 2016 Aliso 34(2):25--152. Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Eriastrum densifolium subsp. elongatum Next taxon: Eriastrum densifolium subsp. patens
Citation for this treatment: Sarah J. De Groot 2023, Eriastrum densifolium subsp. mohavense, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 12, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=50331, accessed on December 04, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 04, 2024.
MAP CONTROLS 1. You can change the display of the base map layer control box in the upper right-hand corner.
2. County and Jepson Region polygons can be turned off and on using the check boxes.
(Note: any qualifiers in the taxon distribution description, such as 'northern', 'southern', 'adjacent' etc., are not reflected in the map above, and in some cases indication of a taxon in a subdivision is based on a single collection or author-verified occurrence).
MAP LEGEND View all CCH records All markers link to CCH specimen records. The original determination is shown in the popup window.
Blue markers indicate specimens that map to one of the expected Jepson geographic subdivisions (see left map). Purple markers indicate specimens collected from a garden, greenhouse, or other non-wild location.
Yellow markers indicate records that may provide evidence for eFlora range revision or may have georeferencing or identification issues.
READ ABOUT YELLOW FLAGS
CCH collections by month
Duplicates counted once; synonyms included.
Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa, if there are more than 1 infraspecific taxon in CA.
Blue line denotes eFlora flowering time (fruiting time in some monocot genera).