Mentzelia decapetala: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Cornales
- Family
- Loasaceae
- Genus
- Mentzelia
- Species
- Mentzelia decapetala
- Scientific Name
- Mentzelia decapetala
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mentzelia decapetala
Mentzelia decapetala, commonly known as tenpetal blazingstar, evening-star, or ten petaled western star is a biennial or short-lived perennial with large white flowers that bloom at night. It is native to dry areas of the western Great Plains in the United States and southern Canada. Its scientific name and many of its common names refer to the apparent ten petals of the flowers, the only species in the blazing star genus with such wide staminodes.
...Mentzelia decapetala in languages:
- English
- Ten-petal Stickleaf
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Mentzelia albescens
- Mentzelia argillicola
- Mentzelia argillosa
- Mentzelia candelariae
- Mentzelia canyonensis
- Mentzelia chrysantha
- Mentzelia collomiae
- Mentzelia conspicua
- Mentzelia cronquistii
- Mentzelia decapetala
- Mentzelia densa
- Mentzelia filifolia
- Mentzelia goodrichii
- Mentzelia hintoniorum
- Mentzelia holmgreniorum
- Mentzelia hualapaiensis
- Mentzelia humilis
- Mentzelia integra
- Mentzelia inyoensis
- Mentzelia laciniata
- Mentzelia laevicaulis
- Mentzelia lagarosa
- Mentzelia leucophylla
- Mentzelia longiloba
- Mentzelia marginata
- Mentzelia memorabalis
- Mentzelia mexicana
- Mentzelia multicaulis
- Mentzelia multiflora
- Mentzelia nuda
- Mentzelia oreophila
- Mentzelia paradoxensis
- Mentzelia perennis
- Mentzelia polita
- Mentzelia procera
- Mentzelia pterosperma
- Mentzelia puberula
- Mentzelia pumila
- Mentzelia reverchonii
- Mentzelia rhizomata
- Mentzelia rusbyi
- Mentzelia saxicola
- Mentzelia shultziorum
- Mentzelia sinuata
- Mentzelia sivinskii
- Mentzelia speciosa
- Mentzelia springeri
- Mentzelia strictissima
- Mentzelia tiehmii
- Mentzelia todiltoensis
- Mentzelia uintahensis






























































































































































