Clarkia Pursh.

	Clarkia sp.: stems

Godetia Spach = Clarkia

godetia

satin flower

Clarkia amoena (Lehm.) Nels. & Macbr. (=C. grandiflora F.&M. Greene¹),

C. amoena ssp. whitneyi (A. Gray) F.H. & M.E. Lewis

C. pulchella Pursh.

C. unguiculata Lindl. (=C. elegans Douglas¹).

Western U.S., particularly California.

Simple, lanceolate, entire or toothed leaves; flowers in leafy racemes; hypanthium present; 4 sepals united and deflexed to one side and 4 paper-thin petals; stamens with flattened filaments widening toward attachment to rim of hypanthium; ovary long, grooved, pedicel-like; style with 4-lobed stigma.

Flowers to 5 cm across, in both single and double forms; mostly in shades of pink, also lavender, red, orange, and white; petals may have central spot or streaks of a different color; petals of some cultivars (e.g. Clarkia unguiculatum) with short to long claws.

Namibia.