Class
Family
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Clarkia Pursh., Fl. Amer. Sept. (Pursh) 256, 260-26, pl. 11 (1814) – as Clarckia
Vernacular Name(s):
Farewell to spring; Godetia
Description
Annual herbs, sometimes with thick erect stems. Lvs alternate, simple, entire or denticulate. Fls in spikes, racemes, or sometimes solitary in the upper lf axils, actinomorphic. Buds erect to pendulous. Floral tube obconic, campanulate or funnelform, short or long and slender, usually with ring of hairs within. Sepals 4, often coloured, reflexing at anthesis. Petals 4, sometimes clawed, often lobed, white, cream, pink to crimson, mauve or purple. Stamens 8 or 4; anthers erect and basifixed. Stigma 4-lobed. Capsule 4-celled, cylindric to clavate, terete to quadrangular; beak present or 0. Seeds numerous, brown or grey, scaly or minutely tuberculate.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Exotic
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 1 |
| Exotic: Casual | 1 |
| Total | 2 |
Bibliography
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Pursh, F. 1813 ("1814"): Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or A Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America. London.
