Common Name: POPPY FAMILY Habit: Annual to small tree; sap colorless, yellow, orange, red, or white. Leaf: basal, cauline, or both, simple and entire, toothed, or lobed, or 1--3-pinnate-dissected or compound; cauline generally alternate; stipules 0. Inflorescence: terminal, 1-flowered or cyme, raceme, or panicle; bracts generally present. Flower: bisexual, radial, bilateral, or biradial; sepals 2--3, shed after flower; petals generally 2 × sepals in number; stamens generally many; ovary 1, superior, chamber 1, style 0 or 1, stigmas or lobes 2--many, ovules few to many. Fruit: capsule, dehiscent by valves or pores, +- nut, or breaking transversely into 1-seeded, indehiscent units. Seed: fleshy appendage generally 0. Genera In Family: 25--30 genera, 200 species: northern temperate, northern tropics; some cultivated (Papaver, Eschscholzia, Hunnemannia), source of opiates. Note:Stylomecon moved to Papaver. Corydalis, Dicentra, Fumaria in Fumariaceae in FNANM, elsewhere. Glaucium flavum Crantz is a waif. According to FNANM (3:300--301), Hunnemannia fumariifolia Sweet (+- like Eschscholzia except sepals free) an occasional waif in California, but documentation evidently lacking. Fleshy appendage of seed sometimes for dispersal by ants. eFlora Treatment Author: Gary L. Hannan & Curtis Clark, except as noted Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Habit: Perennial herb, glabrous, glaucous or not; sap colorless. Leaf: basal, deeply dissected, segments often lobed. Inflorescence: raceme, panicle, or 1-flowered. Flower: biradial, nodding to erect; sepals 2, shed after flower; petals 4, white or cream to pale yellow to pink or pink-tipped, persistent or not, outer 2 free, lanceolate, alike, both pouched at base, inner 2 adherent at tips, oblanceolate, +- crested on back; stamens 6, +- fused in 2 sets opposite outer petals; ovary cylindric to long-conic, placentas 2, style 1, stigma lobes 2. Fruit: oblong, fusiform to ovate, or conic, dehiscent from tip. Seed: few, 1--2 mm, oblong to reniform, smooth to finely netted, black; fleshy appendage present. Etymology: (Greek: twice spurred, from outer petals) Note: Other species in TJM (1993) moved to Ehrendorferia (Liden et al. 1997 Plant Syst Evol 206:411--420). eFlora Treatment Author: Gary L. Hannan
Dicentra formosa (Andrews) Walp.
NATIVE Habit: Plant 20--45 cm, rhizomed. Leaf: 2-ternate-dissected, 20--50 cm. Inflorescence: 2--30-flowered. Flower: nodding; outer petals 14--19 mm, rose-purple to cream or pale yellow, not drying black; base of central stamen of each set aligned with lateral 2. Fruit: 14--20 mm, oblong. Ecology: Damp, shaded areas; Elevation: < 2400 m. Bioregional Distribution: NW, CaR, SNH, n CW; Distribution Outside California: to British Columbia. Flowering Time: Mar--Jul Note: Further study needed to determine if small plants from northwestern KR (leaves blue-glaucous adaxially; petals cream to pale yellow with rose tips), described as Dicentra formosa subsp. oregana (Eastw.) Munz, Oregon bleeding heart, deserve taxonomic recognition. This taxon currently listed in CNPS Inventory. Jepson eFlora Author: Gary L. Hannan Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Dicentra Next taxon: Dicentra nevadensis
Citation for this treatment: Gary L. Hannan 2012, Dicentra formosa, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=22766, accessed on April 24, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 24, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Dicentra formosa:
NW, CaR, SNH, n CW
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