Cycladenia humilis

Cycladenia

Family: Apocynaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Cycladenia is a California native perennial herb found in rocky desert habitats at elevations of 600 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces rose-purple flowers over 15 millimeters long with wavy-edged obovate lobes and distinctive round appendages behind the anthers. Growing with erect, fleshy stems 6 to 12 centimeters tall and covered in tomentose to glabrous herbage, it has a distinctive large root system. Its opposite leaves are 2 to 5 pairs of ovate or round blades, typically less than 9 centimeters long with bases ranging from truncate to tapered. The fruit develops 3 to 5 centimeters long, with seeds featuring a distinctive tuft of long hairs at one end.

California counties: Plumas, Butte, Modoc, Lassen, Monterey, Siskiyou, Colusa, Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Lake, Los Angeles, Inyo, San Bernardino, Sierra, Trinity, Del Norte, Humboldt

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