Camissoniopsis intermedia(P.H.Raven) W.L.Wagner & Hoch

intermediate suncup

WFO wfo-0000508643 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Camissoniopsis intermedia, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. a Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / 2014-05-10 / obs. 847795
Camissoniopsis intermedia, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. b Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 857299
Camissoniopsis intermedia, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. c Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123517981
Camissoniopsis intermedia, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. d Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123517990
Camissoniopsis intermedia, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. e Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 847794

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3696048
Filed as
Camissoniopsis intermedia (P.H.Raven) W.L.Wagner & Hoch
Det. by
Wagner, W. L., (BOT), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES)
Collected
T. Salvato, M. Malle & T. Sullivan 2014-04-22
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Camissoniopsis intermedia is native: California, Mexico Northwest CaliforniaMexico Northwest
Native distribution of Camissoniopsis intermedia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
California CAL NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northwest MXN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Camissonia intermedia P.H.Raven
  • Oenothera asperifolia Nutt.
  • Oenothera dentata Ser.
  • Oenothera hirta Link
  • Oenothera hirta f. reedii (Parish) Munz
  • Oenothera hirta var. typica Munz
  • Oenothera micrantha var. reedii (Parish) Jeps.
  • Sphaerostigma bistortum var. reedii Parish
  • Sphaerostigma hirtum Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol CAIN23. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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