Key to Limnanthes

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

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

1. Petals curving over fruit in age

2. Petals < to ± > sepals ..... L. floccosa

3. Flower cup-shaped; fruit 

papillate 

Pertaining to a surface (e.g., of a leaf, stigma, fruit) bearing small, rounded or conic protuberances (papillae).

, generally with widely conic tubercles ..... subsp. californica

3' Flower bell- to 

urn-shaped 

Widening more or less abruptly at the base and then gradually or abruptly narrowed toward the tip.

; fruit with awl-shaped or plate-like tubercles

4. Sepals glabrous to sparsely hairy; fruit with plate-like tubercles, bristles 0 ..... subsp. bellingeriana

4' Sepals densely hairy; fruit with awl-shaped tubercles, bristles generally present ..... subsp. floccosa

2' Petals > sepals

5. Filaments 2.5–4 mm

6. Petals aging pink; anthers ± 1 mm; PR ..... L. alba subsp. parishii

6' Petals aging white; anthers 0.5–1 mm; c&s SNF ..... L. montana

5' Filaments 5–6 mm

7. Sepals densely hairy; fruit wide-ridged; s NCoR, n&c SNF, GV ..... L. alba subsp. alba

7' Sepals glabrous or sparsely hairy; fruit smooth to sharply tubercled; KR, CaRF, n&c SN ..... L. alba subsp. versicolor

1' Petals generally reflexing in age

8. Leaflets generally 

entire 

Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).

(lower rarely 2–3-lobed); sepals 5–7 mm

9. Petals 7–9 mm; style 2–3 mm; c NCoRO (near Willits, Mendocino Co.) ..... L. bakeri

9' Petals 12–18 mm; style 4.5–6.5 mm; s NCoR (s Sonoma Co.) ..... L. vinculans

8' Leaflets entire to 2–3-lobed; sepals 4–17 mm ..... L. douglasii

10. Flower 

funnel-shaped 

Widening from the base more or less gradually through the throat into an ascending, spreading, or recurved limb; often applied to a fused calyx or corolla.

; petals white, veins generally dark; anthers cream ..... L. douglasii subsp. striata

10' Flower cup- or bell-shaped; petals white to yellow, veins occasionally colored but not dark; anthers cream to yellow, dark pink, orange-red, or ± black

11. Petals yellow, occasionally white-tipped

12. Petals yellow, white-tipped; anthers yellow, cream, or red-brown ..... L. douglasii subsp. douglasii

12' Petals yellow throughout; anthers yellow ..... L. douglasii subsp. sulphurea

11' Petals ± white, without yellow except occasionally when dry

13. Petals veins white or ± purple; anthers cream to yellow; mericarps ± tubercled above or smooth; NCoR, SnFrB, SCoR ..... L. douglasii subsp. nivea

13' Petals veins rose; anthers cream, dark pink, orange-red, or ± black; mericarps ridged; NCoRI, CaRF, c SNF, GV ..... L. douglasii subsp. rosea

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