CA, Mojave Desert, 20060330
Along hwy near Needles, flowers.
Just south of Needles on Hwy 95.
Phacelia pedicellata
| GEN | ann, erect, br'd sev times ab mid |
| ST | thick, pink, pubesc |
| LF | pin, lflts pinfid-lobed, long straight bristly with bulbous bases, also finely straight puber, some glands |
| SEP | 5, 4x1mm, oblance, twice as long as fr, erect, persist, long v cil, hairy like lvs |
| PET | 7-8mm, blue, rotate to sl bell |
| STAM | 5mm?, sl excl |
| STYLE | 4mm?, sl > stam |
| FR | ov, 3x2.5mm, strig top 66% |
| SEED | 2-3 per fr, 2x1mm, ridged and grooved on back, v coarsely but reg'ly pitted, black, dry |
Cryptantha barbigera
| GEN | ann |
| LF | lin-oblong, entire, simple, 30x4mm, long spread sharp bulbous-based bristles |
| INFL | d coiled term cymes, fls sess |
| SEP | 2.5-3mm in fl to 7-8mm in fr, v d v long bristly, 5, free, erect |
| PET | 5, join, tube constricted, throat enlarged in pockets around anthers, wh but for yellow pockets around anthers, 4x1.8mm total |
| STAM | 5, sess, att by dents in throat |
| OV | deeply 4-lobed around style base, pap, glab, green |
| STYLE | 1, min 2-lobed, min, att at base of ov |
| FR | 4 nutlets (gen 1 sometimes as many as 2 maturing), lance, acum, 2mm, v coarsely tubercled, mottled brown beneath
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Cryptantha maritima
| GEN | low, d br'd, ann?, stiff, v sharp-bristly |
| ST | d strig-bristly |
| LF | lin, 15x1-2mm, strig and spread bulb-base bristly |
| INFL | many coiled d term cymes, fls sess |
| SEP | 5, free, 2mm in fl to 3mm in fr
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| PET | wh, 1mm, too minute to see any detail going by fr characteristics instead |
| STAM | ? |
| OV | ? |
| STYLE | ? |
| FR | 1 nutlet matured per fr, smooth, dk brown, shiny, lance-pear, acum
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Camissonia claviformis piersonii
| GEN | ann |
| ST | thick, red, br'd, spreading 1mm-long fine hairy |
| LF | 1-pin, lat lflts smaller and alternate w tiny ones, term lflt ov, sharp wavy toothed, 50x27mm, total 125x27mm, lats 15x7mm, base of term lflt cord, total oblance, not clasp, long petiole (25mm), glab ab |
| INFL | pedicel 8mm, fr spread ~90deg |
| HYP | spread hairy |
| SEP | 4, 2 joined, reflex, 9x6mm, delt |
| PET | 4, 14x17mm, obov-fan, yell |
| STAM | 8, anth dorsifix |
| OV | spread hairy |
| STIG | 2 lobed, glob |
| FR | 45x3mm, straight, terete, 4 rows seeds |
| SEED | wh, angular but not winged, 1.5x1mm |
Mentzelia obscura
| GEN | ann, barbed-hairy |
| LF | alt, ov, acute, acum toothed, clasp, sess |
| INFL | few term, sess |
| HYP | 5x1.5mm, obconic |
| SEP | 5, free, hairy, delt, 2x1mm |
| PET | 5, yell, 4x2.2mm, obov, red at base |
| STAM | 15 |
| OV | 1, inf, many ovules |
| STYLE | 1, stig tiny (3-lobed??) |
| FR | 15x2mm, hairy, oblong-cyl, erect |
| SEED | pap, angled, not winged |