Camissoniopsis pallida is a low growing, yellow-flowered annual plant in the evening primrose family, Onagraceae.[2]: 238 It is known by the common names pale primrose[2]: 238 or pale yellow suncup. It is native to the desert and scrub habitat of the region where Arizona, California, and Nevada meet. It is a roughly hairy annual herb growing in a low patch on the ground, sometimes producing an erect stem from the basal rosette. The herbage is gray-green to reddish green. The leaves are lance-shaped and up to 3 centimeters long. The nodding inflorescence produces flowers with yellow petals 2 to 13 millimeters long, each with small red markings near the bases. The fruit is a straight to tightly coiled capsule.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Onagraceae |
| Genus: | Camissoniopsis |
| Species: | C. pallida
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| Camissoniopsis pallida | |
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References
edit- ^ https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.135999 |access-date=28 May 2022 |website=NatureServe Explorer |publisher=NatureServe
- ^ a b Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd ed., 2013, ISBN 978-0-7627-8033-4
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