Mount Hood pussypaws | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Montiaceae |
Genus: | Calyptridium |
Species: | C. umbellatum
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Binomial name | |
Calyptridium umbellatum | |
Synonyms [1] [2] [3] [4] | |
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Calyptridium umbellatum, synonym Cistanthe umbellata, is a species of flowering plant in the montia family known by the common name Mount Hood pussypaws or — especially outside the Pacific Northwest — simply pussy-paws. [5]
Calyptridium umbellatum is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in a number of habitat types, including areas inhospitable to many other plant types, such as those with alpine climates.
A small subgroup of C. umbellatum are located in the Zayante Sandhills, a biological island in the Santa Cruz Mountains. [6] These individuals reside on a singular hill in the entirety of the sandhills, and their frail petals and loose seeds allow for easy wind dispersal.
It is a perennial herb forming generally two or more basal rosettes of thick, spoon-shaped leaves each a few centimeters long. The inflorescence arises from the rosette, a dense, spherical umbel of rounded sepals and four small petals.
C. umbellatum usually has only one inflorescence per basal rosette; the related C. monospermum generally has more than one. [7]
nomenclatural synonym: Portulacaceae Spraguea umbellata Torr.
Synonyms: Calyptridium umbellatum (Torr.) Greene; Spraguea umbellatum Torr. (basionym)
Distribution: Forks of Nozah River in the foothills of Sierra Nevada of N California, California. Collector: J.C.Fremont s.n.
Mount Hood pussypaws | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Montiaceae |
Genus: | Calyptridium |
Species: | C. umbellatum
|
Binomial name | |
Calyptridium umbellatum | |
Synonyms [1] [2] [3] [4] | |
|
Calyptridium umbellatum, synonym Cistanthe umbellata, is a species of flowering plant in the montia family known by the common name Mount Hood pussypaws or — especially outside the Pacific Northwest — simply pussy-paws. [5]
Calyptridium umbellatum is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in a number of habitat types, including areas inhospitable to many other plant types, such as those with alpine climates.
A small subgroup of C. umbellatum are located in the Zayante Sandhills, a biological island in the Santa Cruz Mountains. [6] These individuals reside on a singular hill in the entirety of the sandhills, and their frail petals and loose seeds allow for easy wind dispersal.
It is a perennial herb forming generally two or more basal rosettes of thick, spoon-shaped leaves each a few centimeters long. The inflorescence arises from the rosette, a dense, spherical umbel of rounded sepals and four small petals.
C. umbellatum usually has only one inflorescence per basal rosette; the related C. monospermum generally has more than one. [7]
nomenclatural synonym: Portulacaceae Spraguea umbellata Torr.
Synonyms: Calyptridium umbellatum (Torr.) Greene; Spraguea umbellatum Torr. (basionym)
Distribution: Forks of Nozah River in the foothills of Sierra Nevada of N California, California. Collector: J.C.Fremont s.n.