Biology:Collomia diversifolia
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Collomia diversifolia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Polemoniaceae |
| Genus: | Collomia |
| Species: | C. diversifolia
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| Binomial name | |
| Collomia diversifolia Greene
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Collomia diversifolia is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name serpentine collomia. It is endemic to California , where it is a member of the serpentine soils flora in the North Coast Ranges from the northern San Francisco Bay Area to Shasta County. It is a small annual herb with many branches bearing dark lance-shaped leaves, the most basal ones having three small teeth. Leaves and stems are lightly to densely covered with glandular hairs. The inflorescence is a cluster of several flowers each about a centimeter wide. The star-shaped flower has pointed violet lobes with yellowish bases coming together at a purple throat.
References
- ↑ "‘’Collomia diversifolia". NatureServe Explorer. NatureServe. http://explorer.natureserve.org/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Collomia+diversifolia. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q5147551 entry
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