Difference between revisions of "Oenothera filipes"

From Coastal Plain Plants Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
(Conservation and Management)
Line 33: Line 33:
 
==Ecology==
 
==Ecology==
 
===Habitat=== <!--Natural communities, human disturbed habitats, topography, hydrology, soils, light, fire regime requirements for removal of competition, etc.-->
 
===Habitat=== <!--Natural communities, human disturbed habitats, topography, hydrology, soils, light, fire regime requirements for removal of competition, etc.-->
''O. filipes'' occurs in dry or well drained sandy soils and sandy loam (FSU Herbarium). It seems to be most common in areas that receive full sun or are only partly shaded (FSU Herbarium). It can be found in longleaf pine flatwoods or sandhills, scrub oak barrens, pine-oak woodlands, and limestone glades (FSU Herbarium). However, it can also appear in areas of disturbed habitat, including roadsides and common use recreational areas (FSU Herbarium). Associated species include ''Pinus palutris, Solidago, Gaillardia, Polianthes, Berchemia, Dichromema, Setaria, Hedyotis, Schoenus nigricans, Muhlenbergia carpillaris,'' and ''Quercus laevis'' (FSU Herbarium).
+
''O. filipes'' occurs in dry or well drained sandy soils and sandy loam. <ref name="FSU Herbarium">Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: [http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu]. Last accessed: June 2014. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Gary R. Knight, John B. Nelson, Robert K. Godfrey, E. Tyson, R. D. Houk. Ann F. Johnson, Wilson Baker, R. Komarek, MacClendons, and G. Wilder. States and Counties: Florida: Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, and Walton.  Georgia: Thomas.</ref> It seems to be most common in areas that receive full sun or are only partly shaded. <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/> It can be found in longleaf pine flatwoods or sandhills, scrub oak barrens, pine-oak woodlands, and limestone glades. <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/> However, it can also appear in areas of disturbed habitat, including roadsides and common use recreational areas. <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/> Associated species include ''Pinus palutris, Solidago, Gaillardia, Polianthes, Berchemia, Dichromema, Setaria, Hedyotis, Schoenus nigricans, Muhlenbergia carpillaris,'' and ''Quercus laevis''. <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/>
  
 
===Phenology=== <!--Timing off flowering, fruiting, seed dispersal, and environmental triggers.  Cite PanFlora website if appropriate: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ -->
 
===Phenology=== <!--Timing off flowering, fruiting, seed dispersal, and environmental triggers.  Cite PanFlora website if appropriate: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ -->
  
This species has been observed to flower and fruit from August to October (FSU Herbarium).
+
This species has been observed to flower and fruit from August to October. <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/>
  
 
===Seed dispersal===
 
===Seed dispersal===
Line 44: Line 44:
  
 
===Fire ecology=== <!--Fire tolerance, fire dependence, adaptive fire responses-->
 
===Fire ecology=== <!--Fire tolerance, fire dependence, adaptive fire responses-->
This species has been found in habitat that is often maintained by fire (FSU Herbarium).
+
This species has been found in habitat that is often maintained by fire. <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/>
 
<!--===Pollination===-->  
 
<!--===Pollination===-->  
 
<!--===Use by animals===--> <!--Herbivory, granivory, insect hosting, etc.-->
 
<!--===Use by animals===--> <!--Herbivory, granivory, insect hosting, etc.-->
Line 56: Line 56:
  
 
==References and notes==
 
==References and notes==
Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: [http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu]. Last accessed: June 2014. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Gary R. Knight, John B. Nelson, Robert K. Godfrey, E. Tyson, R. D. Houk. Ann F. Johnson, Wilson Baker, R. Komarek, MacClendons, and G. Wilder. States and Counties: Florida: Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, and Walton.  Georgia: Thomas.
 

Revision as of 13:30, 3 August 2016

Oenothera filipes
Oeno Gaura fili2.jpg
Photo by John R. Gwaltney, Southeastern Flora.com
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order: Myrtales
Family: Onagraceae
Genus: Oenothera
Species: O. filipes
Binomial name
Oenothera filipes
(Spach) W.L. Wagner & Hoch
GAUR FILI dist.jpg
Natural range of Oenothera filipes from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: slenderstalk beeblossom

Taxonomic notes

Synonyms: Gaura filipes Spach; Gaura filipes var. filipes; Gaura filipes var. major Torrey & A. Gray; Gaura michauxii Spach

Description

Oenothera filipes is a perennial herbaceous species.

"Usually coarse, branched annuals or perennials. Leaves mostly alternate. Inflorescence terminal, spike-like, with or without axillary branches from upper leaves or bracts. Petals white to pink; stigmas 3-4 lobed. Fruit woody, indehiscent." [1]

"Plant to 1.5 m tall, stems pubescent. Leaves linear, elliptic or narrowly lanceolate, to 6 cm long and 6 mm wide, pubescent, glabrous, or puberulent, acute, coarsely toothed to undulate, attenuate; sessile or subsessile. Inflorescence diffusely branched, the branches uncinulate. Spelas and petals 4-7 mm long; anthers 1.6-2.5 mm long styles exerted 5-7 mm. fruits acutely 4-angled, ovoid, 3.5-4 mm long, 3-3.5 mm broad, minutely uncinulate to almost glabrous; pedicels 2-3 mm long, uncinulate."[1]

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

O. filipes occurs in dry or well drained sandy soils and sandy loam. [2] It seems to be most common in areas that receive full sun or are only partly shaded. [2] It can be found in longleaf pine flatwoods or sandhills, scrub oak barrens, pine-oak woodlands, and limestone glades. [2] However, it can also appear in areas of disturbed habitat, including roadsides and common use recreational areas. [2] Associated species include Pinus palutris, Solidago, Gaillardia, Polianthes, Berchemia, Dichromema, Setaria, Hedyotis, Schoenus nigricans, Muhlenbergia carpillaris, and Quercus laevis. [2]

Phenology

This species has been observed to flower and fruit from August to October. [2]

Seed dispersal

According to Kay Kirkman, a plant ecologist, this species disperses by gravity. [3]

Fire ecology

This species has been found in habitat that is often maintained by fire. [2]

Conservation and management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 754-5. Print.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2014. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Gary R. Knight, John B. Nelson, Robert K. Godfrey, E. Tyson, R. D. Houk. Ann F. Johnson, Wilson Baker, R. Komarek, MacClendons, and G. Wilder. States and Counties: Florida: Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, and Walton. Georgia: Thomas.
  3. Kay Kirkman, unpublished data, 2015.