Chylismia brevipes ssp. brevipes (Yellow Cups)

 3/4/17 Shaver's Valley, E. Riverside County, CA

 

 3/4/17 Shaver's Valley, E. Riverside County, CA

3/4/17 Shaver's Valley, E. Riverside County, CA

 2/6/05 Wash on north side of Box Canyon Road (across road from

Little Box Canyon Trailhead), Mecca Hills, Riverside County, CA

 2/6/05 Meccacopia Jeep trailhead on south  
side of Box Canyon Rd., west of Sheep Hole Oasis 
Campground. Mecca Hills, Riverside County, CA

2/6/05 Shaver's Valley, E. Riverside County, CA

 2/6/05 Meccacopia Jeep Trailhead/wash on south side of Box Canyon Rd., 
west of Sheep Hole Oasis Campground. Mecca Hills, Riverside County, CA

2/6/05 Wash north of Box Canyon Rd., west of Sheep Hole Oasis Campground. 
Mecca Hills, Riverside County, CA

 3/21/04 Wash off west side of Cottonwood Road (south of Visitor Center), 
Joshua Tree National Park, Riverside County, CA

 3/13/05 Joshua Tree National Park

 

3/26/05 Hwy. 247 (between Barstow and Lucerne Valley), 
roadside just south of gas pipeline road, San Bernardino County, CA

4/3/17 Day use area off CA 190 between Stove Pipe Wells and Emigrant,
Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Yellow Cups

SPECIES: Chylismia brevipes

FAMILY: Onagraceae (Evening Primrose Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/21/2004

LOCATION: Wash off west side of Cottonwood Road (south of Visitor Center), Joshua Tree National Park, Riverside County, CA

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From Jepson eFlora:

Habit: Annual, strigose or hairs spreading. 

Stem: 3--75 cm. 

Leaf: generally basal, simple to 1-pinnate; terminal leaflet < 65 mm, lateral leaflets generally < 10 mm or 0. 

Inflorescence: nodding. 

Flower: opening at dawn; hypanthium 3--8 mm; sepals 5--9 mm, tips in bud generally free and +- terminal; petals 3--18 mm, yellow, rarely bases red-dotted; stamens +- equal. 

Fruit: 18--92 mm, ascending to spreading, cylindric, straight or curved; pedicel 2--20 mm. 

Seed: 1--1.5 mm. 

Synonyms: Camissonia brevipes (A. Gray) P.H. Raven

eFlora Treatment Author: Warren L. Wagner & Peter C. Hoch, family description, key to genera; treatment of genera by Warren L. Wagner