Biology:Camissonia pusilla

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Camissonia pusilla

Vulnerable (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Onagraceae
Genus: Camissonia
Species:
C. pusilla
Binomial name
Camissonia pusilla
P.H.Raven

Camissonia pusilla is a species of evening primrose known by the common name little wiry suncup. It is native to the western United States from California to Idaho, where it grows in sagebrush and other habitat. It is a petite, hairy, glandular annual herb producing very slender erect stems up to about 22 centimeters in maximum height. The leaves linear with toothed edges and 1 to 3 centimeters long. The nodding inflorescence produces flowers with yellow petals 2 or 3 millimeters long and usually spotted with red near the bases. The fruit is a straight or coiling capsule up to 3 centimeters long.

References

  1. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.136709 |access-date=19 May 2022 |website=NatureServe Explorer |publisher=NatureServe

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5026811 entry