Biology:Dicentra uniflora

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Short description: Species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae

Dicentra uniflora
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Papaveraceae
Genus: Dicentra
Species:
D. uniflora
Binomial name
Dicentra uniflora
Kellogg

Dicentra uniflora, the longhorn steer's head, is a herbaceous perennial growing from a tuber, native to gravelly soils in mountains of the western United States .

Description

Height is up to 10 centimetres (4 in). Leaves are leaves are long-stalked and 3-times compound with rounded leaflets. Each leaflet is deeply divided.

Flowers have pink to white petals tinged with light brown or purple. The two outer petals are bent back; the inner petals are fused at the tip. Flowers bloom February to June. Its habitats include open woods and foothills.[1]

Seeds are borne in a capsule a little more than a 1 centimetre (0.4 in) long.

Dicentra uniflora

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5272373 entry