Cryptantha muricata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Boraginales
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Cryptantha
- Species
- Cryptantha muricata
- Scientific Name
- Cryptantha muricata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cryptantha muricata
Cryptantha muricata is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name pointed cryptantha. It is native to California and adjacent parts of Arizona, Baja California, and Nevada, where it is known from many habitat types. It is an annual herb producing a branching stem between 10 centimeters and one meter in height, which is coated densely in rough and soft hairs. The leaves are linear in shape and no more than 4 centimeters long. They have hairs and bristles, some of which have bulbous bases. The inflorescence is a length of very hairy developing fruits tipped with a cluster of small five-lobed white flowers.
...Cryptantha muricata in languages:
- English
- pointed cryptantha
- English
- prickly popcornflower
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Cryptantha abata
- Cryptantha abramsii
- Cryptantha affinis
- Cryptantha albida
- Cryptantha alfalfalis
- Cryptantha alyssoides
- Cryptantha ambigua
- Cryptantha aprica
- Cryptantha arenophila
- Cryptantha argentea
- Cryptantha barbigera
- Cryptantha bridgesii
- Cryptantha buchtienii
- Cryptantha calycina
- Cryptantha calycotricha
- Cryptantha capituliflora
- Cryptantha carrizalensis
- Cryptantha catalinensis
- Cryptantha chaetocalyx
- Cryptantha clandestina
- Cryptantha clemensae
- Cryptantha clementina
- Cryptantha clevelandii
- Cryptantha clokeyi
- Cryptantha congesta
- Cryptantha crassisepala
- Cryptantha crinita
- Cryptantha cycloptera
- Cryptantha cynoglossoides
- Cryptantha decipiens
- Cryptantha dichita
- Cryptantha diffusa
- Cryptantha dimorpha
- Cryptantha dolichophylla
- Cryptantha dumetorum
- Cryptantha echinella
- Cryptantha excavata
- Cryptantha exigua
- Cryptantha fendleri
- Cryptantha filaginea
- Cryptantha filiformifolia
- Cryptantha filiformis
- Cryptantha flaccida
- Cryptantha foliosa
- Cryptantha ganderi
- Cryptantha geohintonii
- Cryptantha glareosa
- Cryptantha globulifera
- Cryptantha glomeriflora
- Cryptantha glomerulifera
- Cryptantha gnaphalioides
- Cryptantha gracilis
- Cryptantha granulosa
- Cryptantha gypsites
- Cryptantha haplostachya
- Cryptantha hispida
- Cryptantha hispidissima
- Cryptantha hooveri
- Cryptantha incana
- Cryptantha intermedia
- Cryptantha involucrata
- Cryptantha juniperensis
- Cryptantha kelseyana
- Cryptantha kingii
- Cryptantha kinkiensis
- Cryptantha latefissa
- Cryptantha leiocarpa
- Cryptantha leucophaea
- Cryptantha limensis
- Cryptantha linearis
- Cryptantha longifolia
- Cryptantha longiseta
- Cryptantha macrocalyx
- Cryptantha marioricardiana
- Cryptantha mariposae
- Cryptantha maritima
- Cryptantha marticorenae
- Cryptantha martirensis
- Cryptantha mendocina
- Cryptantha mexicana
- Cryptantha microstachys
- Cryptantha milobakeri
- Cryptantha minima
- Cryptantha mohavensis
- Cryptantha multicaulis
- Cryptantha muricata
- Cryptantha nemaclada
- Cryptantha nevadensis
- Cryptantha oxygona
- Cryptantha papillosa
- Cryptantha patagonica
- Cryptantha patula
- Cryptantha peruviana
- Cryptantha phacelioides
- Cryptantha pondii
- Cryptantha pterocarya
- Cryptantha recurvata
- Cryptantha rollinsii
- Cryptantha romanii
- Cryptantha scoparia
- Cryptantha sericea
- Cryptantha simulans
- Cryptantha spathulata
- Cryptantha subamplexicaulis
- Cryptantha taltalensis
- Cryptantha texana
- Cryptantha torreyana
- Cryptantha traskae
- Cryptantha utahensis
- Cryptantha varians
- Cryptantha vidalii
- Cryptantha virens
- Cryptantha volckmannii
- Cryptantha watsonii
- Cryptantha werdermanniana
- Cryptantha wigginsii






















































































































































