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Overview:

Threatened

Conservation Status

NatureServe: G2 Imperiled

Taxonomy

Notes:

Publishing author: A.Gray

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12:80. 1876

Name verified on 06-Jun-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Jun-2007

Physical Description

Family Polemoniaceae:

Herbs annual or perennial, rarely subshrubs or vines. Leaves alternate or opposite, sessile to petiolate, simple, pinnatifid to palmately lobed, or compound. Inflorescences determinate, corymbose, paniculate, or capitate, or flowers solitary. Flowers (4- or) 5-merous. Calyx gamosepalous, cylindric to campanulate; tube herbaceous throughout and papery in fruit or with herbaceous midveins separated by translucent membranes distended or ruptured in fruit; lobes often scarious margined. Corolla gamopetalous, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, rotate to funnelform or salverform; lobes overlapping in bud. Stamens inserted at same or different levels on corolla at base, alternate with corolla lobes, exserted to included; filaments equal to unequal, filiform. Ovary superior, (2- or) 3-locular, placentation axile; ovules 1 to many per locule. Style 1; stigma lobes (2 or) 3. Fruit a capsule. Seeds globose, ovoid, or fusiform, sometimes winged, often sticky when wet.

Nineteen genera and 320-350 species: North and South America, a few species native to temperate Asia and Europe; one genus, Polemonium, and three species in China. Cobraea scandens Cavanilles (a perennial vine with violet campanulate corollas ca. 5 cm) and three species of Phlox, P. drummondii Hooker, P. paniculata Linnaeus, and P. subulata Linnaeus (herbs with white to red, salverform corollas and unequally inserted stamens), are cultivated in China.^[1]

Habit: Forb/herb

Distribution

Range and Population

North America

Native: .

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Gilia:

There are approximately 760 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: G. achilleaefolia abrotanifolia · G. achilleaefolia chamissonis · G. achilleaefolia multicaulis · G. achilleaefolia staminea · G. achilleifolia achilleifolia · G. aggregata bridgesii · G. aggregata eu-aggregata · G. aliquanta breviloba · G. androsacea eu-androsacea · G. androsacea montana · G. androsacea serrulata · G. arenaria exilis · G. arenaria leptantha · G. brecciarum argusana · G. brecciarum jacens · G. brecciarum neglecta · G. cana bernardina · G. cana cana · G. cana speciformis · G. cana speciosa · G. capitata chamissonis · G. capitata mediomontana · G. capitata pacifica · G. capitata staminea · G. capitata tomentosa · G. congesta iberidifolia · G. flavocincta australis · G. gracilis eu-gracilis · G. gracilis humilis · G. gracilis spirillifera · G. humilis glabella · G. inconspicua austrooccidentalis · G. inconspicua eu-inconspicua · G. inconspicua interior · G. inconspicua sinuata · G. latiflora cana · G. latiflora cosana · G. latiflora cuyamensis · G. latiflora davyi · G. latiflora elongata · G. latiflora excellens · G. latiflora exilis · G. latiflora latiflora · G. latiflora leptantha · G. latiflora purpusii · G. latiflora speciosa · G. latiflora triceps · G. leptalea bicolor · G. leptalea capillaris · G. leptalea eu-leptalea · G. leptalea pinnatisecta · G. leptantha pinetorum · G. leptantha salticola · G. leptantha vivida · G. leptomeria micromeria · G. leptomeria rubella · G. liniflora eu-liniflora · G. liniflora pharnaceoides · G. longituba crocea · G. longituba eu-longituba · G. lutea eu-lutea · G. lutea micrantha · G. multicaulis eu-multicaulis · G. multicaulis eximea · G. multicaulis peduncularis · G. ochroleuca bizonata · G. ochroleuca clokeyi · G. ochroleuca transmontana · G. ochroleuca typica · G. ochroleuca vivida · G. ophthalmoides australis · G. ophthalmoides clokeyi · G. ophthalmoides flavocincta · G. ophthalomoides clokeyi · G. palmeri spectabilis · G. pungens eu-pungens · G. pungens hallii · G. pungens pulchriflora · G. rigidula acerosa · G. rigidula arenosa · G. rigidula eu-rigidula · G. rigidula insignis · G. sinistra pinnatisecta · G. sinstra pinnatisecta · G. splendens australis · G. splendens grantii · G. splendens grinnellii · G. subnuda haydenii · G. subnuda superba · G. tenuiflora amplifaucalis · G. tenuiflora eu-tenuiflora · G. tenuiflora latiflora · G. tenuiflora tenuiflora · G. tricolor diffusa · G. 'Red Dwarf' · G. aarenaria · G. aarenaria var. caruifolia · G. aarenaria var. rubella · G. abrotanifolia · G. achillaeafolia

Bibliography

• (2002). Rare Plant Profiles. [Searchable Web site] State of Utah Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife Resources. http://www.utahcdc.usu.edu/rsgis2/Search/SearchSelection.asp?Group=PLANT and Species=PLANT. Accessed: 2002.
• 1988. Status Summary. Idaho Native Plant Society Newsletter: Sage Notes.
• Atwood, D.N.; Holland, J; Bolander, R; Franklin, B.; House, D.E.; Armstrong, L.A.; Thorne, K; England, L. 1991. Utah Threatened, Endangered and Sensitive Plant Guide. U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Region, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Utah Natural Heritage Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Navajo Nation and Skull Valley Goshute Tribe.
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• Clark, Deborah J.; Groebner, Christine M. Determining Habitat Potential and Surveying for Nine Rare Plant Species in South-Central Utah. Southwestern rare and endangered plants: proceedings of the third conference; September 25-28; Flagstaff, AZ. In: Maschinski, Joyce; Holter, Louella, editors. 2000. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Fort Collins, CO (Proceedings RMRS-P-23). p 38-43.
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• Fang Rhui-cheng & Huang Shu-hua in Wu Cheng-yih, ed. 1979. Polemoniaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 64(1): 155-160.
• Kartesz, J.T. 1993. Species distribution data for vascular plants of 70 geographical areas, from unpublished data files at the North Carolina Botanical Garden.
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Notes

Contributors:

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 24, 2007.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 28, 2008)

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 31104
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13745519
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:688905-1
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDPLM04070
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: GICA8
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 40172

Footnotes:

1. Ruizheng Fang & Dieter H. Wilkins "Polemoniaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 326. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.