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Fagonia is a genus of
flowering plantThe flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the
caltropTribulus terrestris is a flowering plant in the family Zygophyllaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Old World in southern Europe, southern Asia, throughout Africa, and Australia. It can thrive even in desert climates and poor soil...
family,
ZygophyllaceaeThe Zygophyllaceae is a family of flowering plants that contains the bean-caper and caltrop. It includes around 285 species in 22 genera.In the APG III system of classification, the families Zygophyllaceae and Krameriaceae compose the order Zygophyllales...
. The roughly 18 species it contains are commonly known as
fagonbushes. Their distribution includes parts of
AfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, the
Mediterranean BasinIn biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin refers to the lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation...
, and parts of the
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.
Fagonia laevisFagonia laevis is a species of plant in the Zygophyllaceae, the Caltrop family, specifically the fagonbushes. It is a perennial subshrub of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico desert regions in California, southern Nevada, Arizona, southwest Utah, Sonora, Baja California and...
is a perennial herb of the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
desert southwest. It has opposite leaves, trifoliate with spinescent
stipuleIn botany, stipule is a term coined by Linnaeus which refers to outgrowths borne on either side of the base of a leafstalk...
s, a pink corolla and smooth fruits.
Selected species
- Fagonia albiflora
- Fagonia arabica L.
- Fagonia chilensis
- Fagonia cretica
Fagonia cretica is a species of plant in the Zygophyllaceae, the Caltrop family, specifically the fagonbushes. It is found in Alicante Province, Spain and the Balearic Islands....
L.
- Fagonia glutinosa
- Fagonia laevis
Fagonia laevis is a species of plant in the Zygophyllaceae, the Caltrop family, specifically the fagonbushes. It is a perennial subshrub of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico desert regions in California, southern Nevada, Arizona, southwest Utah, Sonora, Baja California and...
Standl.Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
(=Fagonia californica) – California Fagonbush
- Fagonia mollis
- Fagonia pachyacantha
Fagonia pachyacantha is a species of flowering plant in the caltrop family known by the common name sticky fagonbush. It is native to the Sonoran Desert of Northwest Mexico in Sonora and the Lower Colorado River Valley area at the California and Arizona border.-Description:Fagonia pachyacantha is a...
Rydb.Per Axel Rydberg was a Swedish-born, American botanist who was the first curator of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. -Biography:...
– Sticky Fagonbush
- Fagonia paulyana
- Fagonia scabra
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