Key to Limnanthes
View taxon page for Limnanthes
(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
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
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 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
11' Petals ± white, without yellow except occasionally when dry
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