Publication: Sp. Pl. 1: 284. 1753.

Origin: Native

Herbarium search: CPNWH

Notes: FNA3: "Plants of Myosurus minimus from a few sites in coastal southern California, northern Baja California, and immediately west of Riley, Oregon, sometimes have short scapes, so that the heads of achenes are immersed in the leaves. These plants, which have been called M . minimus subsp. apus (Greene) G. R. Campbell, M. minimus var. apus Greene, or M. clavicaulis M. E. Peck, are indistinguishable from some recombinant lines found in M. minimus × sessilis hybrid swarms (see discussion under M. sessilis ), but they occur outside the current range of M. sessilis. D. E. Stone (1959) has suggested that they resulted from past hybridization between the two species, perhaps at a time when M. sessilis had a wider range than it does now."

Washington Natural Heritage Program recognizes M. clavicaulis as a distinct taxon and considers it Sensitive in Washington.

Last updated 6/27/2023 by David Giblin.