Oenothera serrulata

Nuttall

Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 246. 1818.

Synonyms: Calylophus australis Towner & P. H. Raven C. drummondianus Spach C. serrulatus (Nuttall) P. H. Raven C. serrulatus var. arizonicus Shinners C. serrulatus var. spinulosus (Torrey & A. Gray) Shinners Meriolix drummondiana (Spach) Small M. intermedia Rydberg M. oblanceolata Rydberg M. serrulata (Nuttall) Walpers M. serrulata var. drummondii (Torrey & A. Gray) Walpers M. serrulata var. spinulosa (Torrey & A. Gray) Walpers M. spinulosa (Torrey & A. Gray) A. Heller Oenothera leucocarpa Comien O. serrulata var. douglasii Torrey & A. Gray O. serrulata subsp. drummondii (Torrey & A. Gray) Munz O. serrulata var. drummondii Torrey & A. Gray O. serrulata var. integrifolia H. Léveillé O. serrulata var. spinulosa Torrey & A. Gray
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Herbs perennial, glabrous or strigillose; from a stout taproot. Stems 1–many, weakly decumbent to erect, unbranched to moderately branched, 10–60 (–80) cm. Leaves 1–9 × 0.1–1 cm, sometimes fascicles of small leaves to 2 cm present in nonflowering axils; petiole 0–0.6 cm; blade linear to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, often folded lengthwise, usually not much reduced distally, proximalmost stem-leaves often narrowly oblanceolate to oblanceolate, sometimes spatulate, base attenuate, margins subentire or spinulose-serrate, apex acute. Flowers opening near sunrise; buds with free tips 0–4 mm; floral-tube 2–12 (–16) mm; sepals 1.5–9 mm, midribs keeled; petals yellow, fading dark yellow to orange, 5–12 (–20) mm; antisepalous filaments 1–5 (–7) mm, antipetalous filaments 0.5–3 mm, anthers 1.5–4 (–6) mm, pollen 30–60 (–80) % fertile; style 2–15 (–20) mm, stigma discoid to quadrangular, surrounded by anthers at anthesis. Capsules 6–25 × 1–3 mm, hard, dehiscent 1/2 their length, often tardily dehiscent through their length. Seeds obovoid, 1–1.8 mm, sharply angled, apex truncate. 2n = 14.


Phenology: Flowering Mar–Aug.
Habitat: Prairies, in grassy, open areas in woods, rarely in mountains, usually sandy or rocky soil.
Elevation: 0–2100 m.

Distribution

Alta., Man., Ont., Sask., Ariz., Colo., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Mich., Minn., Mo., Mont., Nebr., N.Mex., N.Dak., Okla., S.Dak., Tex., Wis., Wyo., Mexico (Chihuahua)

Discussion

Oenothera serrulata occurs from southern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, and southern Manitoba to eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and the Gulf Coast of Texas, including eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, eastern Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, western and central Oklahoma, western and southern Minnesota, Iowa, northwestern Missouri, and with outlying populations in central Illinois, northern Indiana, southeastern Wisconsin, northwestern peninsular Michigan, east-central Arizona, and west-central Chihuahua, Mexico; it is naturalized in Ontario. It was documented in 1909 as a non-native in Vermont and has not been collected since. Oenothera serrulata is a PTH species and forms a ring of 12 + 1II or a ring of 14 chromosomes in meiosis, and is self-compatible and autogamous (H. F. Towner 1977).

Calylophus nuttallii Spach is a superfluous name that pertains here. Oenothera spachiana Steudel August 1840 (not Torrey & A. Gray June 1840) is an illegitimate later homonym and also pertains here.

H. F. Towner (1977) is followed here in recognition of a broadly delimited Oenothera serrulata as a com­plex assemblage of populations that are all primarily autogamous and are PTH. These populations consist of wide morphological diversity involving leaf size and shape, stature, pubescence, and flower size. Some of these variants may have evolved independently from O. capillifolia. Flower size is variable throughout the geographical range, and some of the largest flowered forms occur near large-flowered populations of O. capillifolia subsp. capillifolia in central Oklahoma. Most populations occurring west of approximately 98°W longitude comprise well-branched, short-leaved, and relatively low-statured plants, while those east of that line are less branched, taller and more erect, long-leaved, and densely strigillose. Populations along the Texas Gulf Coast described as Calylophus australis are rather distinctive and are separated from the remainder of the populations of O. serrulata primarily in less dense pubescence, shorter, coarsely serrate leaves, and more erect stems. They may have been independently derived from O. capillifolia. In his revision, Towner did not continue to recognize them because there were no data available on the phylogeny of other populations of O. serrulata. Subsequent detailed analyses (B. Cooper, unpubl.) indicate that the Texas coastal popula­tions described as C. australis arose independently from other populations of O. serrulata, but O. serrulata also has multiple apparent origins from O. capillifolia.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
Warren L. Wagner +
Nuttall +
pale green +  and yellow usually fading orange purple pale-yellow reddish or whitish +
attenuate +
Calylophus spach +
indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
spinulose +, serrulate +  and serrate +
serrulate or spinulose-serrate +  and subentire +
linear +  and narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate +
reduced +
quadrangular +
, +  and straight +
tapering +, cylindrical +  and obtusely 4-angled +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Alta. +, Man. +, Ont. +, Sask. +, Ariz. +, Colo. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Mo. +, Mont. +, Nebr. +, N.Mex. +, N.Dak. +, Okla. +, S.Dak. +, Tex. +, Wis. +, Wyo. +  and Mexico (Chihuahua) +
0–2100 m. +
gray +  and brown +
exfoliating +
basifixed +  and versatile +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
hispid +, lanate +  and glabrous +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
zygomorphic +  and actinomorphic +
curved +  and straight +
indehiscent +  and dehiscent +
4-angled +, terete +, tapering +, cylindrical +, ellipsoid +, clavate +, ovoid ellipsoid +  and cylindrical rhombic-obovoid or globose +
Prairies, in grassy, open areas in woods, rarely in mountains, usually sandy or rocky soil. +
perennial +
suffrutescent +
strigillose +  and glabrous +
nodding +  and erect +
deciduous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
spinulose-serrate +  and subentire +
pedicellate +  and sessile +
1 +  and 8 +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
yellow +  and orange +
suborbiculate +  and rhombic or obcordate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
Flowering Mar–Aug. +
spatulate +, often narrowly oblanceolate +  and oblanceolate +
Gen. N. Amer. Pl. +
basal +  and cauline +
clavate +  and globose +
sculptured +  and smooth +
angled +  and obovoid +
reduced +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br />) +
purple +, pink +, red +  and green +
deciduous +
with keeled midribs +  and flat +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
parietal +, axile +  and placentation +
unequal +
aquatic +, amphibious +  and terrestrial +
in 2 unequal series +  and subequal +
2 times as many or as many as sepals +
unbranched +  and moderately branched +
60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
weakly decumbent +  and erect +
1 +  and many +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br />) +
blue-black +, usually yellow +  and yellow-green +
discoid +  and quadrangular +
petiolate +  and sessile +
intrapetiolar +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
aquatic +, amphibious +  and terrestrial +
smooth +, reticulate +  and furrowed +
rugose +, papillose +  and non-papillate +
Calylophus australis +, C. drummondianus +, C. serrulatus +, C. serrulatus var. arizonicus +, C. serrulatus var. spinulosus +, Meriolix drummondiana +, M. intermedia +, M. oblanceolata +, M. serrulata +, M. serrulata var. drummondii +, M. serrulata var. spinulosa +, M. spinulosa +, Oenothera leucocarpa +, O. serrulata var. douglasii +, O. serrulata subsp. drummondii +, O. serrulata var. drummondii +, O. serrulata var. integrifolia +  and O. serrulata var. spinulosa +
Oenothera serrulata +
Oenothera subsect. Calylophus +
species +
3(-5)-aperturate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
woody +  and hard +
smooth +  and erose +
papillate +