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This wildflower commonly known as Douglas meadowfoam, stands at a height not exceeding 50 centimeters. The name meadowfoam arises from the frothy appearance of an expansive meadow that is dominated with this plant at spring bloom. The leaf has five to 13 leaflets, each leaflet less than three cm in length. The leaflets are often toothed or lobed. Flowers are cup to bell-shaped, with sepals five to 15 millimeters with petals ten to 18 mm; petals ar white, yellow, or yellow with white tips. Petal veins often purple, pink, or cream; stamens are five to eight mm. Fruit is in the form of a nutlets. Smooth obovoid fruits are 2.5 to 5.0 mm in characteristic diameter.
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* Jepson Manual. 1993. Limnanthes douglasii University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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Distribution
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Anonymous. 1986. List-Based Rec., Soil Conserv. Serv., U.S.D.A. Database of the U.S.D.A., Beltsville.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1103
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Abrams, L. 1951. Geraniums to Figworts. 3: 866 pp. In L. Abrams Ill. Fl. Pacific States. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1679
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage: Limnanthes douglasii
Public Records: 1
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Limnanthes douglasii
Limnanthes douglasii is a species of flowering plant in the meadowfoam family commonly known as poached egg plant and Douglas' meadowfoam. It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in wet, grassy habitat, such as vernal pools and spring meadows. It can grow in poorly drained clay soils. The plant was collected by the Scottish explorer and botanist David Douglas, who worked on the west coast of America in the 1820s.
The plant usually bears white flowers with yellow centers, hence the name "poached egg plant", but flower color can vary across subspecies. It is a popular ornamental plant. It attracts hoverflies to the garden to beat the aphids and is well loved by bees. It is self-seeding, and gardeners are often careful as to where the seeds fall as it will quite happily grow in a lawn.
There are four subspecies:
- Limnanthes douglasii ssp. douglasii (R. Br.) is native to the coastal mountains and valleys of southwestern Oregon south to the San Francisco Bay Area
- Limnanthes douglasii ssp. nivea (C.T. Mason), with mostly white flowers, grows in the coastal mountains of northern California
- Limnanthes douglasii ssp. rosea (Hartw. ex Benth.), found in California's Central Valley and adjacent hills, often has pink veining on its petals
- Limnanthes douglasii ssp. sulphurea (C.T. Mason) is a rare yellow-petaled subspecies endemic to the Bay Area
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