Biology:Romanzoffia californica

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Short description: Species of plant

Romanzoffia californica
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Romanzoffia
Species:
R. californica
Binomial name
Romanzoffia californica
Greene

Romanzoffia californica is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name California mistmaiden.[1] It is native to Oregon and northern California , where it grows in moist and wet habitat, such as coastal bluffs and mountain forests.

Romanzoffia californica grows erect to 40 centimeters tall from a network of hairy brown tubers. Around the base is a number of leaves with rounded, evenly lobed blades on petioles several centimeters long.

The inflorescence is a curving cyme of flowers, each on a small, erect pedicel. The flower has a funnel-shaped corolla which may just exceed a centimeter long, set in a calyx of pointed sepals. The corolla is white in color with a yellow throat. The fruit is a capsule up to a centimeter long.

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External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7362876 entry