Biology:Collomia rawsoniana

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Collomia rawsoniana
Collomia rawsoniana (Rawson's flaming trumpet) (32748923572).jpg

Imperiled (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Collomia
Species:
C. rawsoniana
Binomial name
Collomia rawsoniana
Greene

Collomia rawsoniana is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name flaming trumpet. This perennial wildflower is endemic to California , where it is known from only two counties: Mariposa and Madera. It grows in the woodland understory in the Sierra Nevada foothills. This plant produces a thin, erect stem to about half a meter in height with widely spaced, deeply toothed hairy leaves each several centimeters long. Atop the stem is an inflorescence of three to seven showy red-orange flowers. Each flower is up to 4 centimeters long and trumpet-shaped, with a protruding pistil and stamens tipped with anthers covered in blue pollen.

The species name commemorates the collector of its type material, Lucy Adeline Briggs Cole Rawson Peckinpah Smallman.[2]

References

  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.128116. 
  2. Greene, E.L. (1888). "New or Noteworthy Species". Pittonia :a Series of Papers Relating to Botany and Botanists 1: 222. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15253684#page/221/mode/1up. Retrieved 9 May 2022. "A most beautiful plant, by far the finest of its genus, discovered in the higher valleys of the Sierra Nevada, in Fresno County, California, by Mrs. L. A. Peckenpah (nee Rawson).". 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5147556 entry