Key to Chamerion

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(For a list of species in Chamerion, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Bracts << cauline leaves, ± 

linear 

Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong.

; 

leaf 

Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).

 veins conspicuous; 

petioles 

Leaf stalk, connecting leaf blade to stem; sometimes more or less indistinct.

2–7 mm; sepals 7–16 mm; petals 10–25 mm ..... C. angustifolium subsp. circumvagum

1' Bracts = cauline leaves, 

lanceolate 

Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip.

; leaf veins obscure; petioles 0–3 mm; sepals 10–24 mm; petals 13–32 mm ..... C. latifolium

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