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Collomia rawsoniana

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Collomia rawsoniana

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

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

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  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
  2. ^ 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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