Polemoniaceae
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CANOTIA (2005)
PLANT: Annuals, perennial herbs, or shrubs, pubescent, rarely glabrous. LEAVES: alternate to opposite, simple to compound; stipules absent. INFLORESCENCE: cymose, open to congested, the cymes usually arranged in panicles; flowers rarely solitary. FLOWERS: perfect, actinomorphic to zygomorphic, hypogynous; sepals usually 5, united, with equal to unequal lobes, the tube usually with herbaceous ribs separated by hyaline membranes that are distended or ruptured in fruit; corolla tubular, with 5 lobes; stamens usually 5, epipetalous, alternate with the corolla lobes, equally to unequally inserted; filaments equal to unequal in length; ovary usually with 3 locules; style simple, included to exserted, with (2-)3 stigmatic lobes. FRUIT: a capsule, rarely indehiscent or circumscissile, with 1-many ovules and seeds in each locule, the mature seeds in most taxa becoming gelatinous when wet. NOTES: ca 26 genera, ca 380 spp., chiefly of western N. Amer. but also in western S. Amer. and temperate Eurasia. Porter, J. M. and L. A. Johnson. Aliso 19: 55-91. 2000. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.
Species within checklist: Arizona || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Aliciella haydenii
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Aliciella hutchinsifolia
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Aliciella latifolia
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Aliciella leptomeria
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Aliciella lottiae
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Aliciella subnuda
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Aliciella triodon
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Allophyllum gilioides
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Collomia grandiflora
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Collomia linearis
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Eriastrum diffusum
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Eriastrum eremicum
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Gilia achilleifolia
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Gilia brecciarum
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Gilia cana
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Gilia capitata
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Gilia clivorum
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Gilia clokeyi
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Gilia filiformis
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Gilia flavocincta
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Gilia inconspicua
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Gilia mexicana
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Gilia minor
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Gilia ochroleuca
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Gilia ophthalmoides
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Gilia scopulorum
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Gilia sinuata
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Gilia splendens
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Gilia stellata
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Gilia subacaulis
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Gilia transmontana
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Gilia tricolor
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Giliastrum acerosum
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Ipomopsis aggregata
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Ipomopsis arizonica
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Ipomopsis congesta
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Ipomopsis gunnisonii
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Ipomopsis laxiflora
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Ipomopsis longiflora
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Ipomopsis macombii
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Ipomopsis macrosiphon
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Ipomopsis multiflora
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Ipomopsis polyantha
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Ipomopsis polycladon
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Ipomopsis pumila
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Ipomopsis tenuifolia
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Ipomopsis tenuituba
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Ipomopsis thurberi
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Langloisia setosissima
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Leptodactylon caespitosum
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