Inflorescences: axis recurved at tip in bud, becoming erect; buds pendent. Flowers: floral tube campanulate, 1–5 mm; sepals reflexed individually or, sometimes, all together to 1 side; petals lavender-purple or -pink, reddish purple, or pinkish lavender, often dark-flecked or -spotted, obovate, suborbiculate, or obdeltate to rhombic, rarely ± 3-lobed, constricted into ± broad claw with pair of lateral basal lobes; stamens 8, subequal; ovary subterete or 4-grooved, often 8-striate. Capsules 4-angled; sessile or pedicellate.

Species 7 (7 in the flora): nw United States, w Mexico.

SELECTED REFERENCE Small, E. 1971. The systematics of Clarkia, section Myxocarpa. Canad. J. Bot. 49: 1211–1217.