''Nama stenocarpa'' is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name mud fiddleleaf. It is native to northern Mexico and areas of southern

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, where it is known from wet habitat such as marshes and swampy valley wetlands.

Description

''Nama stenocarpa'' is a hairy annual herb with a prostrate or upright branching stem up to about 40 centimeters long. The oval or spoon-shaped leaves are up to about 3 centimeters long, wavy or rolled along the edges, and clasp the stem at their bases. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

is a cluster of white flowers and their bristly, leaflike

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coined b ...

s. Each funnel-shaped flower is about half a centimeter long and wide with a lobed face.

External links

Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of ''Nama stenocarpum''UC Photos gallery — ''Nama stenocarpum''
stenocarpa Flora of Arizona Flora of California Flora of Texas Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Hydrophylloideae-stub