Meconella oregana

Meconella oregana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Papaveraceae
Genus: Meconella
Species: M. oregana
Binomial name
Meconella oregana
Nutt.
Synonyms[1]

Platystigma oreganum (Nutt.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex S.Watson

Meconella oregana, the white fairypoppy, is a plant species native to Oregon, California, Washington and British Columbia. It grows on sandy bluffs, meadows and stream banks, at elevations of less than 300 m (1000 feet).[2]

Meconella oregana is a small herb up to 16 cm (40 inches) tall. It has narrow, linear leaves up to 18 mm (0.7 inches) long. Flowers are solitary on long, thin stalks, white with 4-6 stamens (compared with 8-12 stamens in M. californica).[3][4][5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List
  2. ↑ Flora of North America v 3
  3. ↑ Ernst, W. R. 1967. Floral morphology and systematics of Platystemon and its allies Hesperomecon and Meconella (Papaveraceae: Platystemonoideae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 47: 25-70.
  4. ↑ Torrey, John, & Asa Gray. Flora of North America 1(1): 64. 1838.
  5. ↑ Hitchcock, C. H., A.J. Cronquist, F. M. Ownbey & J. W. Thompson. 1984. Salicaceae to Saxifragaceae. Part II: 1–597. In C. L. Hitchcock Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington Press, Seattle.
  6. ↑ Scoggan, H. J. 1978. Dicotyledoneae (Saururaceae to Violaceae). 3: 547–1115. In Flora of Canada. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.
  7. ↑ Pacific Northwest Wildflowers, Turner Photographics, Bellilngham WA
  8. ↑ Oregon Flora Image Project
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