Fagonia cretica: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Zygophyllales
- Family
- Zygophyllaceae
- Genus
- Fagonia
- Species
- Fagonia cretica
- Scientific Name
- Fagonia cretica
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Fagonia cretica
Fagonia cretica is a species of plant in the caltrop family (Zygophyllaceae). It is native to dry regions of the Mediterranean Basin in North Africa (in Cape Verde, Canary Islands, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt), Southern Europe (in the Balearic Islands, Portugal, Southeast Spain, Sicily, and Greece) and West Asia (in Saudi Arabia and the Sinai peninsula).
Fagonia cretica is a plant of rocky coastlines. It is a creeping plant and has star-shaped, 5-narrow petal, violet to light violet flowers.
...Fagonia cretica in languages:
- Czech
- podlák krétský
- English
- Virgin's Mantle
- French
- Fagonie de Crête
- German
- Kretische Fagonie
- Portuguese
- Fagónia
- Russian
- Фагония критская
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Fagonia arabica
- Fagonia barclayana
- Fagonia bruguieri
- Fagonia californica
- Fagonia capensis
- Fagonia chilensis
- Fagonia cretica
- Fagonia densa
- Fagonia glutinosa
- Fagonia harpago
- Fagonia isotricha
- Fagonia kahirina
- Fagonia laevis
- Fagonia latifolia
- Fagonia longispina
- Fagonia mollis
- Fagonia olivieri
- Fagonia orientalis
- Fagonia ovalifolia
- Fagonia pachyacantha
- Fagonia palmeri
- Fagonia schweinfurthii
- Fagonia scoparia
- Fagonia sinaica
- Fagonia socotrana
- Fagonia villosa
- Fagonia zilloides