Lewisia leeana

Species of flowering plant

Lewisia leeana

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Order:  | Caryophyllales
Family:  | Montiaceae
Genus:  | Lewisia
Species:  |

L. leeana

Binomial name
Lewisia leeana

(Porter) B.L.Rob.

Lewisia leeana (orth. var. L. leana) is a species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae known by the common name quill-leaf lewisia. It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada and Klamath Ranges. This is a perennial herb growing from narrow, woody taproot connected to one or more caudices. It produces a basal rosette of many fleshy flat to cylindrical blunt-tipped leaves up to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence bears many flowers on erect, branching stems up to about 24 centimeters tall. Each flower has 5 to 8 white, pink, or purplish petals each about half a centimeter long.

This plant is named for Lambert Wilmer Lee, who collected it in the Siskiyou Mountains just south of the Oregon border in 1876.[1] It commonly hybridizes with Lewisia cotyledon in the wild, producing Lewisia x whiteae.[2]

## References

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1. ^ CalFlora Botanical Names
2. ^ Flora of North America

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Taxon identifiers

Lewisia leeana|

* Wikidata: Q6537353
* Wikispecies: Lewisia leeana
* Calflora: 10065
* CoL: 6PV28
* CNPS: 2284
* EoL: 486727
* FNA: 242415773
* GBIF: 5384265
* iNaturalist: 77728
* IPNI: 139326-2
* IRMNG: 10765650
* ITIS: 503426
* NatureServe: 2.141925
* NCBI: 89085
* Open Tree of Life: 995521
* Plant List: tro-26200119
* PLANTS: LELE8
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:139326-2
* Tropicos: 26200119
* WFO: wfo-0001104983

Calandrinia leeana|

* Wikidata: Q39269376
* CoL: PF5C
* GBIF: 3084648
* IPNI: 40807-2
* IRMNG: 10594787
* ITIS: 509926
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40807-2
* Tropicos: 50203761
* WFO: wfo-0000578956

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