Camissonia campestris
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| Camissonia campestris (Greene) P.H.Raven |
Camissonia campestris (Mojave sun cup or Mojave suncup), is a flowering plant in the family Onagraceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the United States. It grows mostly on open, sandy flats, occurring from sea level to 2,000 m in the western and central part of the desert.
It is an annual plant growing to 5-25 cm tall (rarely to 50 cm tall). The leaves are linear, 0.5-3 cm long, with a finely serrated margin. The flowers have four petals 5-15 mm long, yellow with a red spot at the base, fading orange to reddish.
[edit] References
- Jepson Flora Project: Camissonia campestris
- Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 76
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