| Trichostema micranthum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Teucrioideae |
| Genus: | Trichostema |
| Species: | T. micranthum |
| Binomial name | |
| Trichostema micranthum A.Gray |
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Trichostema micranthum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name smallflower bluecurls. It is native to Arizona and Baja California, with populations also occurring in the San Bernardino Mountains of California. Its habitat includes meadows and riverbanks. It is an annual herb growing a few centimeters tall, approaching 30 centimeters in maximum height. Its aromatic herbage is coated in short, glandular and nonglandular hairs. The pointed oval or lance-shaped leaves are up to 4.5 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a series of clusters of flowers located at each leaf pair. Each flower has a hairy calyx of pointed sepals and a tubular, lipped purple corolla a few millimeters in length. The four stamens are sometimes protrude from the lips of the corolla.