Kallstroemia californica
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Kallstroemia californica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Zygophyllales |
Family: | Zygophyllaceae |
Genus: | Kallstroemia |
Species: | K. californica
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Binomial name | |
Kallstroemia californica | |
Synonyms | |
Kallstroemia brachystylis |
Kallstroemia californica is a species of flowering plant in the caltrop family known by the common name California caltrop. It is native to the deserts of the Southwestern United States, California, and northern Mexico.
Description
Kallstroemia californica is a mat-forming annual herb which grows in thick carpetlike masses on sandy substrates. The branching stem has compound leaves which are each made up of several widely spaced pairs of small oval-shaped green leaflets.
It produces individual flowers with five rounded or oval petals and a ring of ten stamens. The fruit is a small body a few millimeters wide of ten conjoined nutlets which split apart.
External links
- Calflora Database: Kallstroemia californica (California caltrop, California kallstroemia)
- Jepson Manual eFlora treatment - Kallstroemia californica
- Kallstroemia californica - Photo gallery
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- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- Taxonbars with automatically added basionyms
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- Kallstroemia
- Flora of Northwestern Mexico
- Flora of the Southwestern United States
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
- Natural history of the Colorado Desert
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- Taxa named by Sereno Watson
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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- Rosid stubs