Chorizanthe clevelandii

Parry

Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. 4: 62. 1884.

Common names: Cleveland’s spineflower
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 460. Mentioned on page 448.

Plants spreading to decumbent, 0.2–0.8 (–1) × 0.5–5 (–7) dm, appressed-pubescent. Leaves basal; petiole 0.5–2 mm; blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 (–2) × 0.3–0.6 (–0.8) cm, thinly pubescent. Inflorescences with involucres in small, open clusters 0.5–1.5 cm diam., greenish or grayish to reddish; bracts 2, sessile, usually leaflike, oblanceolate to elliptic, 0.5–1.5 cm × 1.5–5 mm, gradually reduced and becoming scalelike at distal nodes, linear, aciculate, acerose, 0.4–1 cm × 1–2 (–3) mm, awns straight, 1–3 mm. Involucres 3–10, grayish to reddish, urceolate, slightly ventricose basally, 3–3.5 mm, slightly corrugate, without scarious or membranous margins, densely pubescent; teeth widely spreading to divergent, unequal, 0.3–0.6 mm or 3–6 mm; awns uncinate, unequal, with longer anterior one 1.5–2.5 mm, others spreading, 0.3–0.6 mm. Flowers included or only slightly exserted; perianth bicolored with floral-tube greenish white and tepals white, cylindric, 2.5–3 mm, sparsely pubescent; tepals connate 2/3 their length, dimorphic, linear-oblong, those of outer whorl spreading, 1.5 times longer than those of inner whorl, rounded, entire or emarginate to slightly 2-lobed apically, those of inner whorl erect, acute, entire to erose, slightly fimbriate or 2-lobed apically; stamens 3, included; filaments distinct, 2–2.5 mm, glabrous; anthers white, ovate, 0.3–0.4 mm. Achenes brown, globose-lenticular, 2.5–3 mm. 2n = 42.


Phenology: Flowering May–Sep.
Habitat: Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, mixed grassland and chaparral communities, pine-oak woodlands
Elevation: 400-2000 m

Discussion

Chorizanthe clevelandii is locally infrequent to common in scattered locations in the Coast Ranges from Mendocino and Lake counties south to Santa Barbara County, and across the Transverse and Tehachapi ranges of Ventura and Kern counties to the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County. It is the most widely distributed of the spineflowers endemic to California. The involucres stick to fur, clothing, and fingers, aiding dispersal of the achenes.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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globose-lenticular +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br />) +
James L. Reveal +
alternating +
straight +
uncinate +
unequal +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
alternate +  and rosulate +
stipelike +
awn-tipped +  and simple +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
deciduous +
distinct +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
glandular +, woolly-floccose +, tomentose +, strigose +, villous +, hirsute +  and pubescent +
acerose +, scale-like +, oblanceolate +  and elliptic +
reduced +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
disarticulating +, dichotomous +, branched +  and open +
erect +  and spreading +
just below the soil surface or and above the soil surface +  and spreading +
Cleveland’s spineflower +
400-2000 m +
curved +  and straight +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
white +  and pink or rose maroon or purple or yellow +
exserted +  and included +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
unwinged +  and winged +
black +, red +, brown +  and yellowish +
exserted +  and included +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
spheroidal +, 4-gonous +, lenticular +, biconvex +, discoid +, 3-gonous +  and 2-gonous +
Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, mixed grassland and chaparral communities, pine-oak woodlands +
uniparous +, capitate +  and cymose +
cymelike +, paniclelike +, racemelike +  and spikelike +
connate +  and free +
grayish +  and reddish +
ventricose +  and urceolate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
nonmembranous +
lanceolate +  and ovate or spatulate +
in whorls +, opposite +, alternate +  and rosulate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
bractlike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
lobed +, undulate +, crisped +, crenulate +  and entire +
membranous +  and scarious +
not swollen +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br />) +
orthotropous +
accrescent +
curved +  and straight +
erect to deflexed +
cylindric +  and campanulate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
with extrafloral nectaries +  and not articulate +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
Flowering May–Sep. +
homostylous +  and 3-carpellate +
Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. +
, +  and solid +
slender;stout +
not disarticulating +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
prostrate +  and erect +
penicillate +, fimbriate +  and capitate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-lobed +  and cylindric +
coriaceous +  and membranous +
consisting of a series +  and tubular +
distinct +
erect;spreading +
spreading;erect +
Chorizanthe sect. Anisogonum +, Chorizanthe sect. Eriogonellopsis +  and Chorizanthe sect. Herbaceae +
chambered +, , +  and solid +
slender +  and stout +
Chorizanthe clevelandii +
Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala +
species +
cylindric +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
shallow +
unequal +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
spreading;decumbent +
appressed-pubescent +
3 +, 2 +  and 1 +
entire +  and erose +
emarginate to slightly 2-lobed +  and entire +
1.5 times longer than +
erect +  and spreading +