Biology:Cryptantha roosiorum

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Cryptantha roosiorum
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Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)
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C. roosiorum
Binomial name
Cryptantha roosiorum
Munz

Cryptantha roosiorum is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name bristlecone cryptantha.

It is endemic to Inyo County, California, where it is known from only a few occurrences in the northern Inyo Mountains.

It is a small, mat-forming perennial herb just a few centimeters high which grows from a woody caudex rooted in rocky soils. The leaves are up to about a centimeter long, oval to spoon-shaped, and hairy to bristly. The inflorescence is a dense cluster of tiny white flowers with five-lobed white corollas with yellow appendages.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5190647 entry