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|accepted_name=Mentzelia mollis
|accepted_authority=M. Peck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|place=4: 183. 1945
|year=1945
}}
|common_names=Smooth or soft blazingstar
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Trachyphytum;Mentzelia mollis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Loasaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mentzelia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Mentzelia sect. Trachyphytum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mentzelia mollis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 532
|treatment_page=page 539
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>candelabra-form, 3–15(–20) cm. <b>Basal</b> leaves not persisting. <b>Cauline</b> leaves: petiole present (proximal leaves), absent (distal leaves); blade lanceolate to linear (proximal leaves), ovate to lanceolate (distal leaves), to 6 cm, margins dentate or entire (proximal leaves), entire (distal leaves). <b>Bracts</b> green, ovate to elliptic, 5–8.5 × 2–5 mm, width 2/5–3/5 length, not concealing capsule, margins entire. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 3–5.5 mm; petals yellow to orange proximally, yellow distally, 8–12 mm, apex rounded; stamens 20+, 3–8 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed; styles 7–9 mm. <b>Capsules</b> cylindric or clavate, 5–22 × 2–4 mm, axillary curved to 45° at maturity, often prominently longitudinally ribbed. <b>Seeds</b> 15–25, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled, irregularly polygonal, surface smooth to minutely tessellate under 10× magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent; seed coat cell outer periclinal wall flat to slightly convex. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Barren, sodic or calcic clay slopes and bluffs derived from volcanic ash.
|elevation=800–1500 m.
|distribution=Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Mentzelia mollis</i> is narrowly distributed in eastern Malheur County, Oregon, and western Owyhee County, Idaho, and disjunctly in the Black Rock Range of Humboldt County, <i>Nevada</i>. Recent phylogenetic studies support treatment of these disjunct populations as a single species (J. M. Brokaw and L. Hufford 2010b). In both ranges, <i>M. mollis</i> is predominantly limited to barren soils with high salinity. <i>Mentzelia mollis</i> is listed as endangered by the Oregon Department of Agriculture and is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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name=Mentzelia mollis
|author=
|authority=M. Peck
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Barren, sodic or calcic clay slopes and bluffs derived from volcanic ash.
|elevation=800–1500 m.
|distribution=Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|publication year=1945
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Trachyphytum
|species=Mentzelia mollis
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