Leptosiphon lemmonii

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Leptosiphon lemmonii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Leptosiphon
Species:
L. lemmonii
Binomial name
Leptosiphon lemmonii
(A.Gray) J.M.Porter & L.A.Johnson
Synonyms

Linanthus lemmonii

Leptosiphon lemmonii (syn. Linanthus lemmonii) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Lemmon's linanthus. [1]

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Leptosiphon lemmonii is native to the San Bernardino Mountains and the Peninsular Ranges in southern California (U.S.) and northern Baja California (México). [1] It grows below 1,900 metres (6,200 ft), in dry inland chaparral, oak woodlands, the Colorado Desert chaparral ecotone, and Yellow pine forest habitats. [2]

Description

Leptosiphon lemmonii is a small, hairy, glandular annual herb producing a thin stem no more than about 15 centimeters tall. The leaves are divided into needle-like linear lobes, each a few millimeters in length. [2]

The inflorescence is an array of a few small flowers accompanied by bracts shaped much like the leaves. Each flower has lobes only 2 or 3 millimeters long, usually white or cream in color darkening to yellow and orange in the throat, sometimes with maroon areas as well. The bloom period is April to June. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leptosiphon lemmonii (Lemmon's linanthus)". Calflora.
  2. 1 2 3 "Leptosiphon lemmonii". Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2).


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