Camissonia campestris (field primrose,[2]: 238 Mojave sun cup,[2]: 238 or Mojave suncup), is a flowering plant in the family Onagraceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the United States. It grows mostly on open, sandy flats, occurring from sea level to 2,000 m in the western and central part of the desert.
| Camissonia campestris | |
|---|---|
.jpg)
| |
| Camissonia campestris near Gorman, California | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Onagraceae |
| Genus: | Camissonia |
| Species: | C. campestris
|
| Binomial name | |
| Camissonia campestris | |
It is an annual plant growing to 5–25 cm tall (rarely to 50 cm tall). The leaves are linear, 0.5–3 cm long, with a finely serrated margin. The flowers have four petals 5–15 mm long, yellow with a red spot at the base, fading orange to reddish.
References
edit- ^ https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.159640 |access-date=19 May 2022 |website=NatureServe Explorer |publisher=NatureServe
- ^ a b Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd ed., 2013, ISBN 978-0-7627-8033-4
- Jepson Flora Project: Camissonia campestris
- Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 76
 | This Myrtales article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |