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Kallstroemia grandiflora (Arizona poppy; orange caltrop)

Synonyms: Kallstroemia grandiflora var. arizonica; Kallstroemia grandiflora var. detonsa; Tribulus fisheri; Tribulus grandiflorus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Kallstroemia grandiflora, or Arizona poppy, is a summer annual herb of the deserts of the Southwestern United States, California, and northern Mexico. Kallstroemia grandiflora has opposite, pinnately compound leaves. Large showy flowers often appear in abundance after summer monsoon rains, with bristly trichomes, stipules, and orange corollas.
View Wikipedia Record: Kallstroemia grandiflora

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Annual
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fort Bowie National Historic Site III 1004 Arizona, United States

Predators

Chaetodipus penicillatus (desert pocket mouse)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Chaetodipus penicillatus, Stacy J. Mantooth and Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 767, pp. 1–7 (2005)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0