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Astragalus crassicarpus grows primarily in the Great Plains of Canada and the United States, from British Columbia east to Ontario and south to Texas. [5] [9] It has been recorded as far east as Will County, Illinois, but whether it was originally native to this area or an introduction is unknown. [10] Ground plums grow in sunny drained soil.
The outside of the flower is smooth, but the inside of flower will have two lines of fine, short, hairs and reddish-purple nectar guides. As a whole, the flower will be 16–22 mm long, with a tube width of 3–4 mm and an internal diameter of 3–5 mm. [ 6 ] The stamens are kept within the tube of the flower and the pollen sacs on the stamens ...
Opuntia polyacantha is a common species of cactus known by the common names plains pricklypear, [3] [4] starvation pricklypear, [5] hairspine cactus, [3] and panhandle pricklypear. [2] It is native to North America, where it is widespread in Western Canada , the Great Plains , the central and Western United States , and Chihuahua in northern ...
Pimelea spinescens, commonly known as plains rice-flower, spiny rice-flower or prickly pimelea, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Victoria. It is a spreading undershrub with elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and heads of white, cream-coloured or yellow flowers surrounded by 4 elliptic ...
Ouret lanata is a common weed which grows wild everywhere in the plains of India. The root has a camphor-like aroma. The dried flowers which look like soft spikes, are sold under the commercial names Buikallan and Boor. It is one of the plants included in Dasapushpam, the ten sacred flowers of Kerala.
The flowers are borne in spikes or cylindrical heads, sometimes singly, in pairs or in racemes in the axils of leaves or phyllodes, sometimes in panicles on the ends of branches. Each spike or cylindrical head has many small golden-yellow to pale creamy-white flowers, each with 4 or 5 sepals and petals, more than 10 stamens , and a thread-like ...
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Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine environments. There are about 60 species of fully marine seagrasses which belong to four families (Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae and Cymodoceaceae), all in the order Alismatales (in the clade of monocotyledons). [1]