Description
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Plants annual, with minute, tuberous bodies; periderm absent. Stems 5-15 cm. Leaves: blades gray, beige, or pink, glaucous; basal blades linear (almost filiform), 3-12 × 0.05-0.1 cm; cauline leaves sessile, blades distinct and spatulate or partially connate into horn shape, 0.2-1.5 cm, or perfoliate, 0.2-1.5 cm wide. Inflorescences 1-bracteate; bract leaflike, 0.5-15 mm. Flowers 6-12 mm diam.; sepals 2-3 mm; petals pink or white, 6-10 mm; ovules 3. Seeds 1-2 mm diam., tuberculate; elaiosome 0.5-1 mm. 2n = 16.
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Habitat
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Moist areas on serpentine in open glades or slopes of chaparral and foothill pine woodlands; 100-1200m.
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Synonym
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Claytonia nubigena Greene; Montia gypsophiloides (Fischer & C. A. Meyer) Howell; M. perfoliata (Donn ex Willdenow) Howell var. nubigena (Greene) Jepson
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Comprehensive Description
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Limnia nubigena (Greene) A. Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 279
1907.
Claylonia nubigena Greene, Pittonia 2: 294. 1892.
Monlia perfoliala nubigena Jepson, Fl. W. Middle Calif. 186. 1901.
Annual; stems ascending, less than 1 dm. high, slender; basal leaves petioled, glaucousgreen, the blades filiform or rarely narrowly linear-oblanceolate, often without distinction between petiole and blade; stem-leaves connate, forming a rounded disk 5-15 mm. wide; inflorescence 2-5 cm. long, often peduncled and with a single minute bract, rather lax; sepals orbicular, in fruit scarcely 2 mm. long; petals pale-pink or whitish, 4—6 mm. long.
Type locality: Mt. Tamalpais, California. Distribution: Mountains of central California.
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- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg. 1932. CHENOPODIALES. North American flora. vol 21(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Comprehensive Description
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Limnia gypsophiloides (Fisch. & Mey.) A. Heller, Muhlenbergia
2:27*. 1907,
i.i.i . in ii. .ii r. irop 2 1 1 1836. a ipalhuiala part . 1887.
mfonHa Kvpuiphtloi.lc Howell, Eryt I Annual; stems several or many, erect or ascending, 5-20 cm. high, glabrous; basal leaves filiform to narrowly linear, light-green or glaucous, slender, 3-S cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, usually without distinction between petiole and blade; stem-leaves varying from ovate to linear, connate only on one side at the base up to half their length, 1-3 cm. long, 1-8 mm. wide; racemes elongate, usually peduncled, with a single bract, 3-10 cm. long, the pedicels single or in pairs, slender, recurved in fruit; sepals suborbicular, about 2 mm. long; petals pink or white, oval, 5-6 mm. long, deeply notched; capsule 2-2.5 mm. long; seeds black, shining, minutely punctate, 1 mm. long.
Type locality: (Fort] Ross. California.
Distribution: Oregon and California.
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- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg. 1932. CHENOPODIALES. North American flora. vol 21(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Claytonia gypsophiloides: Brief Summary
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Claytonia gypsophiloides, known by the common names gypsum springbeauty and Coast Range claytonia, is a species of wildflower in the family Montiaceae.
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