WorldFloraDB - Platystemon californicus

Characteristics

Plants 0.3-3 dm, pilose or hirsute, sometimes glabrate. Leaves 10-90 × 1.7-8.1 mm; blade broadly linear; margins entire; apex rounded to long-acute. Inflorescences: peduncle 3.4-25.8 cm; bud globose to ovoid-cylindric. Flowers: petals white to cream colored, sometimes with yellow tip and/or base, rarely gold overall, sometimes tinged red in age, narrowly ovate to obovate, 6-19 × 3.5-16 mm, apex acute to rounded; ovary cylindric to oblong-ellipsoid; stigmas linear, margin revolute. Capsules ellipsoid, to 1.6 cm. Seeds black, shining, smooth. 2 n = 12 (plus occasional supernumerary chromosomes).

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An annual poppy. It can be erect or spreading. It grows 30 cm high and spreads 10 cm wide. The leaves are arranged in rings. They are narrow and oblong and 8 cm long. The flowers are open and have 6 petals. The stamen are prominent. The flowers can be cream or yellow. The flowers occur singly on short, hairy stems.

Life form	annual
Growth form	herb
Growth support	-
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
Pollination	anemogamy
Spread	-
Mature width (meter)	0.1
Mature height (meter)	0.3
Root system	-
Rooting depth (meter)	-
Root diameter (meter)	-
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Nitrogen fixer	-
Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

It grows on the fringes of the desert. It grows in open grassy areas. It needs a sunny position. It needs a well-drained soil. It can grow in arid places. It suits hardiness zones 8-10.

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Open grassy clay or sandy places, also on burns, usually below 900 metres in California.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The leaves are eaten as greens.

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

Cultivation

It can be grown from seed. Seed should be spaced to 10 cm apart.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°)	12 - 18
Germination luminosity	-
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Optimum temperature (C°)	-
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Images

Platystemon californicus unspecified picture

Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:201884-2
WFO ID	wfo-0001090295
COL ID	4JYZF
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Platystemon obtectus Platystemon loesenerianus Platystemon hyacinthinus Platystemon intermedius Platystemon purpuratus Platystemon exsculptus Platystemon pilosellus Platystemon villosus Platystemon tessellatus Platystemon quercetorum Platystemon remotus Platystemon rigidulus Platystemon rugosus Platystemon setosus Platystemon sphaerocarpus Platystemon termini Platystemon tortuosus Platystemon turbinatus Platystemon tympaniferus Platystemon verecundus Platystemon subereus Platystemon communis Platystemon aculeolatus Platystemon acutatus Platystemon antoninus Platystemon arvorum Platystemon capsularis Platystemon cernuus Platystemon anemonoides Platystemon confinis Platystemon commixtus Platystemon mendocinus Platystemon microlobus Platystemon proximus Platystemon pectinatus Platystemon penicillatus Platystemon petrinus Platystemon nigricans Platystemon hallii Platystemon contortus Platystemon crenatus Platystemon heterander Platystemon hispidulus Platystemon californicus Platystemon arizonicus Platystemon australis Platystemon mohavensis Platystemon crinitus Platystemon horridulus Platystemon ornithopus Platystemon nutans Platystemon leiocarpus Platystemon elegans Platystemon emarginatus Platystemon leucanthus Platystemon glyptolobus Platystemon leptander Boothia californica Platystemon californicus var. ciliatus Platystemon californicus var. crinitus Platystemon californicus var. horridulus Platystemon californicus var. nutans Platystemon californicus var. ornithopus Platystemon californicus var. californicus

WorldFloraDB 2024

Platystemon californicus Benth.

Creamcups (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Papaveraceae > Platystemon