Eschscholzia lemmonii

Greene

W. Amer. Sci. 3: 157. 1887.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.

Plants annual, caulescent, erect or spreading, 5-30 cm, glabrous to sparsely pubescent. Leaves basal and cauline; blade with ultimate lobes generally obtuse. Inflorescences cymose or 1-flowered; buds erect or nodding. Flowers: receptacle turbinate, distally translucent and somewhat swollen, more than 1.5 mm broad, cup without spreading free rim; calyx acute, glabrous or pubescent; petals orange or deep yellow, 15-40 mm. Capsules 3-7 cm. Seeds brown, 1.3-1.8 mm, reticulate. 2n = 12.

Distribution

w North America (Calif.)

Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Plants spreading or erect; flower buds nodding; calyx generally pubescent. Eschscholzia lemmonii subsp. lemmonii
1 Plants erect; flower buds generally erect; calyx glabrous. Eschscholzia lemmonii subsp. kernensis
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Greene +
palmate +  and subpalmate +
nodding +  and erect +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
w North America (Calif.) +
sessile +, pedicellate +  and symmetric +
2-valved +  and capsular +
cylindric +
microscopic +
1-flowered +  and cymose +
paniculate +  and racemose +
terminal +  and axillary +
sessile +, petiolate +  and simple +
cauline +  and basal +
1-2-locular or +  and incompletely completely multilocular +
yellow +, deep +  and orange +
distinct +
obovate +  and obcuneate +
2 times number of sepals +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
W. Amer. Sci. +
swollen +  and turbinate +
clear orange +  and colorless +
carunculate +  and arillate +
ridged +, spheric +  and ovoid +
0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (?) +
deciduous +
obovate +
12 +  and many +
decumbent +, spreading +  and erect +
Eschscholzia lemmonii +
Eschscholzia +
species +
spreading +  and erect +
glabrous +  and sparsely pubescent +