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.
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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 roseata
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Ipomopsis spicata
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Ipomopsis tenuituba
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Langloisia setosissima
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Lathrocasis tenerrima
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Leptodactylon caespitosum
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Leptosiphon chrysanthus
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Leptosiphon harknessii
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Linanthus arenicola
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Linanthus bicolor
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Linanthus bigelovii
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Linanthus demissus
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Linanthus dichotomus
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Linanthus nuttallii
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Linanthus parryae
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Linanthus pharnaceoides
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Linanthus pungens
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Linanthus septentrionalis
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Linanthus watsonii
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Loeseliastrum matthewsii
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Loeseliastrum schottii
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Microsteris gracilis
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Navarretia breweri
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Navarretia divaricata
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Navarretia intertexta
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Navarretia leucocephala
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Phlox aculeata
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Phlox albomarginata
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Phlox amabilis
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Phlox austromontana
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Phlox cluteana
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Phlox condensata
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Phlox diffusa
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Phlox gladiformis
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Phlox gracilis
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Phlox griseola
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Phlox hoodii
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Phlox jonesii
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Phlox kelseyi
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Phlox longifolia
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Phlox multiflora
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Phlox muscoides
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Phlox pulvinata
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Phlox speciosa
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Phlox stansburyi
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Phlox tumulosa
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