Chamaesaracha
Chamaesaracha | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Solanales |
Family: | Solanaceae |
Subfamily: | Solanoideae |
Tribe: | Physaleae |
Genus: | Chamaesaracha (Gray) Benth. |
Species | |
9 — see text |
Chamaesaracha is a genus of perennial herbs in the nightshade family which are known commonly as five eyes.[1] There are around nine species of five eyes, and they are native to the southwestern and western United States and parts of Mexico. These are hairy plants growing low to the ground and covered in crinkly dull green leaves. The flowers are star-shaped to wheel-shaped and their dried remnants can be found around the fruits, which are spherical berries filled with flat, kidney-shaped seeds.
Selected species:
- — gray five eyes
- Chamaesaracha coronopus — greenleaf five eyes
- — toothed five eyes
- — Edwards Plateau five eyes
- [2]
- — pale five eyes
- — dwarf chamaesaracha
- — hairy five eyes
- — TransPecos five eyes
References[]
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Chamaesaracha". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ Averett, J.E. (2010). "A new species of Chamaesaracha (Solanaceae) from Mexico and the separation of C. crenata from C. villosa" (PDF). Phytologia. 92 (3): 435.
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Categories:
- Physaleae
- Solanaceae genera
- Flora of North America
- Taxa named by Asa Gray
- Solanales stubs