The Clarkia fossil beds (also known locally as the Fossil Bowl) is a Miocene lagerstätte near Clarkia, Idaho.
The city shares a public K-6 school with the communities of Clarkia, Santa and Emida.
Homeotic mutants in angiosperms are thought to be rare in the wild: in the annual plant Clarkia, (Onagraceae), homeotic mutants are known where the petals are replaced by a second whorl of sepal like organs, originating via a mutation governed by a single recessive gene.
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arida, the Shasta clarkia, is known only from the forests around Shingletown.
Clarkia pulchella is most famous for its use by botanist Robert Brown in the discovery of Brownian motion.
They feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Salvia columbariae, Asclepias cordifolia, Ribes aureum, Dichelostemma capitatum, Clarkia, Vicia, Cirsium and Stachys species.
The forests around Shingletown are home to the Shasta clarkia a rare subspecies of Clarkia borealis, a flowering plant in the evening primrose family.