Cryptantha Intermedia, Clearwater Cryptantha
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Cryptantha intermedia (clearwater cryptantha), Bayside Trail, Cabrillo National Monument, California
Common names:
Clearwater cryptantha, common cryptantha
Family:
Scientific name:
Cryptantha intermedia
Main flower color:
Range:
The Pacific states, west Idaho, northwest Nevada and Arizona
Height:
Up to 2 feet
Habitat:
Woodland, chaparral, dunes, coastal scrub, from sea level to 6,000 feet
Leaves:
Linear to narrowly oblanceolate, up to 2 inches long, bristly-hairy
Season:
March to July
Cryptantha intermedia produces one or more stems, branched or not, reaching heights of up to 24 inches, covered, usually, by both spreading bristly hairs and finer, appressed hairs. Leaves are bristly-hairy, especially along the edges and on the undersides; the hairs are ascending to appressed. Leaf tips are rounded.
Flowers are produced in small groups, of two to four; they have a five-lobed calyx, the lobes narrowly oblong, with appressed bristly hairs, and a five-lobed corolla, white with pale yellow appendages around the throat.
There are two varieties of cryptantha intermedia; var johnstonii of coastal California, and the more widespread var intermedia, differing in characteristics of the stem hairs and the nutlets.
Flowers are produced in small groups, of two to four; they have a five-lobed calyx, the lobes narrowly oblong, with appressed bristly hairs, and a five-lobed corolla, white with pale yellow appendages around the throat.
There are two varieties of cryptantha intermedia; var johnstonii of coastal California, and the more widespread var intermedia, differing in characteristics of the stem hairs and the nutlets.
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