Mentzelia goodrichii: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Cornales
- Family
- Loasaceae
- Genus
- Mentzelia
- Species
- Mentzelia goodrichii
- Scientific Name
- Mentzelia goodrichii
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mentzelia goodrichii
Mentzelia goodrichii is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Loasaceae known by the common name Goodrich's blazingstar. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from Duchesne County.
This plant is a long-lived perennial herb forming clumps of branching, white stems up to about 30 centimeters tall. The inflorescence contains 1 to 3 flowers, each with 10 large yellow petals. Blooming occurs in July.
This plant is known from five locations on the Badland Cliffs of northeastern Utah, where it grows on the white shale outcrops of the Green River Formation. It grows among pines and Douglas-fir.
...Mentzelia goodrichii in languages:
- English
- Goodrich's Blazingstar
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