Lewisia cotyledon (S.Watson) B.L.Rob.

Cliff maids. (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Montiaceae > Lewisia

Characteristics

Taproots gradually ramified distally. Stems ascending to suberect, 10-12(-30) cm. Leaves: basal leaves evergreen, sessile or abruptly or gradually narrowed to broad petiole, blade oblanceolate, obovate, spatulate, or rarely ± linear or ± orbiculate, ± flattened, 3-14 cm, margins entire, crisped, or toothed, apex truncate, emarginate, retuse, or rounded; cauline leaves alternate, intergrading with bracts, blade oblong to ovate, 5-10 mm, margins glandular-toothed, apex acute to occasionally obtuse. Inflorescences dense, paniculate to subumbellate cymes, 10-50-flowered; bracts alternate or opposite proximally, 2 at each flowering node distally, obovate to lanceolate, 2-4 mm, margins glandular-toothed, apex acute. Flowers pedicellate, not disarticulate in fruit; sepals 2, suborbiculate to broadly ovate, 4-6 mm, herbaceous at anthesis, margins glandular-toothed, apex obtuse to truncate; petals 7-10, usually pink-purple with pale and darker stripes, less often white, cream with pink-orange stripes, ± orange, or yellow, oblanceolate, obovate, or spatulate, (8-)12-20 mm; stamens 5-12; stigmas 2-4; pedicel 2-5 mm. Capsules 3-5 mm. Seeds 4-15, 1.5 mm, shiny, smooth.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality -
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Root system tap-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 4-8
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity 2-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

Uses environmental use
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 17 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
Minimum temperature (C°) -18
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Lewisia cotyledon unspecified picture

Distribution

Lewisia cotyledon world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:139315-2
WFO ID wfo-0001104977
COL ID 7272B
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Lewisia cotyledon Lewisia finchiae Oreobroma cotyledon Lewisia purdyi Lewisia cotyledon var. purdyi Lewisia cotyledon var. cotyledon

Lower taxons

Lewisia cotyledon var. heckneri Lewisia cotyledon var. howellii