Ipheion sellowianum
DaveKarn@aol.com (Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:51:51 PDT)

In a message dated 4/13/2007 1:22:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
wpoulsen@pacbell.net writes:

I used to think the two were the same species, and the flowers are
almost identical to me. But now that my pots have filled in
completely, the two look different. My N. dialystemon has leaves
that, while narrow, are twice as wide as those of my N. sellowianum.

Lee ~

Wouldn't that be the sort of variation that one would expect when dealing
with species?

Although, if these things don't readily set seed, than what we may be dealing
with are clonal forms that are/were (unintentionally?) distributed as such
and under different names. One fallout, I suppose, of botanists/classifiers,
etc., who keep changing the name of plants that don't know they aren't supposed
to be different!

Dave Karnstedt

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