Biology:Gratiola ebracteata
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Gratiola ebracteata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Gratiola |
| Species: | G. ebracteata
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| Binomial name | |
| Gratiola ebracteata Benth.
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Gratiola ebracteata is a species of flowering plant known by the common name bractless hedgehyssop. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Montana to California . It grows in mud. This is a small, hairless, glandular annual plant rarely exceeding 10 centimeters in height. It grows from the mud of wet habitats, producing an erect stem in shades of reddish green. There are a few small red-bordered green leaves along the stem. The inflorescence is an extension of the stem a few millimeters long and coated in hairlike glands. The centimeter-long flower is a sort of rectangular tube which is yellowish or off-white. The fruit is a spherical capsule a few millimeters wide.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q10955309 entry
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