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Tripterocalyx
''Tripterocalyx'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock family, Nyctaginaceae. It contains four species formerly included in the closely related genus ''Abronia'', the sand-verbenas. These plants are native to North America, especially the dry desert southwest of the United States. They bloom in heads of several colorful trumpet-shaped flowers. Sandpuffs or sand-verbenas are common names for plants in this genus. Species There are four species in the genus ''Tripterocalyx: *''Tripterocalyx carneus'' – winged sandpuffs *''Tripterocalyx crux-maltae'' – Kellogg's sand-verbena *''Tripterocalyx micranthus'' – small-flowered sand-verbena *''Tripterocalyx wootonii ''Tripterocalyx'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock family, Nyctaginaceae. It contains four species formerly included in the closely related genus ''Abronia'', the sand-verbenas. These plants are native to North America, es ...'' (sometimes treated as a variety of ''T. carneus' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripterocalyx Wootonii
''Tripterocalyx'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock family, Nyctaginaceae. It contains four species formerly included in the closely related genus ''Abronia'', the sand-verbenas. These plants are native to North America, especially the dry desert southwest of the United States. They bloom in heads of several colorful trumpet-shaped flowers. Sandpuffs or sand-verbenas are common names for plants in this genus. Species There are four species in the genus ''Tripterocalyx: *'' Tripterocalyx carneus'' – winged sandpuffs *''Tripterocalyx crux-maltae ''Tripterocalyx crux-maltae'' is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common names Lassen sandverbena and Kellogg's sand-verbena. Distribution It is native to a section of the Great Basin straddling the far north ...'' – Kellogg's sand-verbena *'' Tripterocalyx micranthus'' – small-flowered sand-verbena *'' Tripterocalyx wootonii'' (sometimes treated as a variety of ''T. carne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripterocalyx Carneus
''Tripterocalyx'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock family, Nyctaginaceae. It contains four species formerly included in the closely related genus ''Abronia'', the sand-verbenas. These plants are native to North America, especially the dry desert southwest of the United States. They bloom in heads of several colorful trumpet-shaped flowers. Sandpuffs or sand-verbenas are common names for plants in this genus. Species There are four species in the genus ''Tripterocalyx: *'' Tripterocalyx carneus'' – winged sandpuffs *''Tripterocalyx crux-maltae'' – Kellogg's sand-verbena *'' Tripterocalyx micranthus'' – small-flowered sand-verbena *''Tripterocalyx wootonii ''Tripterocalyx'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock family, Nyctaginaceae. It contains four species formerly included in the closely related genus ''Abronia'', the sand-verbenas. These plants are native to North America, es ...'' (sometimes treated as a variety of ''T. carneu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripterocalyx Crux-maltae
''Tripterocalyx crux-maltae'' is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common names Lassen sandverbena and Kellogg's sand-verbena. Distribution It is native to a section of the Great Basin straddling the far northern California-Nevada border, where it grows in sagebrush habitat. It is nearly endemic to Nevada, with only one occurrence present in Lassen County, California. Description ''Tripterocalyx crux-maltae'' grows in a patch on the ground, the multibranched stems spreading not more than 30 centimeters long. The stems are reddish in color and coated in sticky glandular hairs. Each leaf has a fleshy green blade up to 7 centimeters long which is borne on a long petiole. The herbage is sticky in texture. The inflorescence is a head of several elongated flowers borne on long, glandular pedicels In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence. Such inflorescences are described as ''pedicellate''. Descriptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abronia (plant)
''Abronia'', the sand-verbenas or wild lantanas, is a genus of about 20 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants in the family Nyctaginaceae. Despite the common names, they are not related to ''Verbena'' (vervains) or lantanas in the family Verbenaceae. They are closely allied with '' Tripterocalyx''. They are native to western North America, from Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada, south to west Texas, California, Baja California and central Mexico, growing on dry sandy soils. ''Abronia macrocarpa'', a Texas endemic, is protected under the Endangered Species Act. '' Abronia ammophila'', the Yellowstone sand verbena, is a plant unique to Yellowstone National Park's lakeshores and is endemic to the park. Only a few species are widespread, and many are quite rare. They make very attractive garden plants for hot, dry sandy sites. Selected species Formerly placed here * '' Tripterocalyx carneus'' (Greene) L.A.Galloway (as ''A. carnea'' Greene) * ''Tripterocalyx crux-mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripterocalyx Micranthus
''Tripterocalyx micranthus'' is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common names smallflower sandverbena and small-flowered sand-verbena. It is native to North America, where it is known from southern Alberta and Saskatchewan through a section of the central United States toward the desert southwest in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. It can be found in several types of habitat, including sandy and scrubby desert regions and sagebrush. Description ''Tripterocalyx micranthus'' is erect and branched but generally compact, its hairy, glandular stem reaching a maximum length near 60 centimeters. The stem is red in color and sticky in texture. Each leaf has a fleshy, hairy green blade up to 6 centimeters long which is borne on a long petiole. The inflorescence is a head of several elongated flowers borne on long, glandular pedicels In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence. Such inflorescences are des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyctaginaceae
Nyctaginaceae, the four o'clock family, is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions. The family has a unique fruit type, called an " anthocarp", and many genera have extremely large (>100 µm) pollen grains. The family has been almost universally recognized by plant taxonomists. The APG II system (2003; unchanged from the APG system of 1998), assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. A phylogenetic study by Levin has justified the combination of ''Selinocarpus'' and ''Ammocodon'' into the genus '' Acleisanthes''. The genus ''Izabalea'' is now considered a synonym of ''Agonandra'', a genus in Opiliaceae. A more recent study by Douglas and Manos clarified the relationships among almost all of the genera in the family and demonstrated that a substantial diversification of herbaceous genera has occurred in arid North America. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Torrey
John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botany, botanist, chemist, and physician. Throughout much of his career, he was a teacher of chemistry, often at multiple universities, while he also pursued botanical work, focusing on the flora of North America. His most renowned works include studies of the New York flora, the Mexican Boundary, the Pacific railroad surveys, and the uncompleted ''Flora of North America''. Biography Torrey was born in New York City, the second child of Capt. William and Margaret (née Nichols) Torrey.Robbins, C. C. (1968). John Torrey (1796–1873), His Life & Times. ''Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club''. Vol. 95, No. Nov. 6–Dec. 1968, 515–645. Torrey Botanical Club, New York. He showed a fondness for mechanics, and at one time planned to become a machinist. When he was 15 or 16, his father received an appointment to the state prison at Greenwich Village, New York, where he was tutored by Amos Eaton, then a pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jackson Hooker
Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum. Hooker was born and educated in Norwich. An inheritance gave him the means to travel and to devote himself to the study of natural history, particularly botany. He published his account of an expedition to Iceland in 1809, even though his notes and specimens were destroyed during his voyage home. He married Maria, the eldest daughter of the Norfolk banker Dawson Turner, in 1815, afterwards living in Halesworth for 11 years, where he established a herbarium that became renowned by botanists at the time. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, where he worked with the botanist and lithographer Thomas Hopkirk and enjoyed the supportive friendshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flowering Plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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