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Camissonia bairdii
Paiute Suncup is a small annual wildflower native to a single county in Utah, growing in clay soil in pinyon-juniper woodland. It is critically imperiled, so it should not be collected from the wild.
Camissonia bairdii is a plant species endemic to Washington County, Utah. It occurs in clay soil in pinyon-juniper woodlands. The species is classified as critically imperiled.
Camissonia bairdii is an annual herb up to 12 cm tall, with leaves mostly near the base, with glandular hairs. Leaves are mostly simple (unlobed and untoothed), up to 3 cm long. Flowers are in a short raceme at the ends of the branches, each raceme with up to 7 flowers. Flowers are nodding (hanging), up to 1 cm in diameter, yellow with red spots. Capsule is up to 5 cm long (longer than in most closely related species).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Camissonia bairdii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
