Collomia rawsoniana | |
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Conservation status | |
Imperiled (NatureServe) | |
Scientific classification | |
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.
References
- "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
- Greene, E.L. (1888). "New or Noteworthy Species". Pittonia :a Series of Papers Relating to Botany and Botanists. 1: 222. 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).
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Collomia rawsoniana |
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