Tiquilia palmeri
Tiquilia palmeri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Boraginales |
Family: | Boraginaceae |
Genus: | Tiquilia |
Species: | T. palmeri
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Binomial name | |
Tiquilia palmeri | |
Synonyms | |
Coldenia palmeri |
Tiquilia palmeri is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names Palmer's crinklemat[1] and Palmer's tiquilia.
It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in sandy desert areas.
Description
[edit]Tiquilia palmeri is a woody perennial herb producing a white-barked, shaggy-haired stem. The clustered leaves have small, hairy, wrinkled blades rarely more than a centimeter long which are borne on longer petioles.
The inflorescence is a cluster of flowers borne in the leaf axils. Each flower has a bell-shaped purple, lavender, or bluish corolla up to a centimeter long with a short, tubular throat.
This is the main host plant for the rare Coachella Valley grasshopper (Spaniacris deserticola).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Tiquilia palmeri". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
- ^ BLM. Coachella Valley Grasshopper. Species Accounts: Coachella Valley Desert Conservation Area Plan. Page E-11.
External links
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- NatureServe apparently secure species
- Tiquilia
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Flora of Arizona
- Flora of Baja California
- Flora of the Coachella Valley
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of Riverside County, California
- Flora of Sonora
- Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
- Natural history of the Colorado Desert
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- North American desert flora
- Least concern plants
- Boraginaceae stubs