Tripterocalyx
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Tripterocalyx is a small genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock family
. 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.
Species:
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...
. It contains four species formerly included in the closely related genus Abronia
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 or lantanas in the family Verbenaceae...
, 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.
Species:
- Tripterocalyx carneus - winged sandpuffs
- Tripterocalyx crux-maltaeTripterocalyx crux-maltaeTripterocalyx crux-maltae is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common name Lassen sand-verbena. 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,...
- Lassen sand-verbena - Tripterocalyx micranthusTripterocalyx micranthusTripterocalyx micranthus is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common name smallflower 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...
- smallflower sand-verbena - Tripterocalyx wootonii (sometimes treated as a variety of T. carneus) - Wooton's sandpuffs