Dicentra uniflora
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Ranunculales |
Family: | Papaveraceae |
Genus: | Dicentra |
Species: | D. uniflora
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Binomial name | |
Dicentra uniflora Kellogg
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Dicentra uniflora, the longhorn steer's head, is a herbaceous perennial growing from a tuber, native to gravelly soils in mountains of the western United States.
Description[]
Height is up to 10 centimetres (4 in). Leaves are leaves are long-stalked and 3-times compound with rounded leaflets. Each leaflet is deeply divided.
Flowers have pink to white petals tinged with light brown or purple. The two outer petals are bent back; the inner petals are fused at the tip.
Seeds are borne in a capsule a little more than a 1 centimetre (0.4 in) long.
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Dicentra uniflora
References[]
External links[]
Media related to Dicentra uniflora at Wikimedia Commons
- Jepson Manual: Dicentra uniflora
- Flora of North America — map
- Dicentra uniflora - U.C. Photo Gallery
Categories:
- Dicentra
- Flora of California
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of Utah
- Flora of the Northwestern United States
- Flora of the Rocky Mountains
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- Ranunculales stubs