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Camissonia contorta
Also called Contorted Pod Evening Primrose, Contorted Suncup, Dwarf Contorted Suncup, Twisted Suncup, Plains Eveningprimrose
Camissonia contorta is a species of flowering plant, known by the common name plains evening primrose, in the family Onagraceae. It is an annual herb producing a slender, bending to curling red or green stem which is sometimes hairy. It is up to 30 centimeters long and erect or spreading out. The blue-green leaves are linear to very narrowly oval in shape and up to 3.5 centimeters long. The nodding inflorescence produces one or more small flowers. Each has bright yellow petals up to half a centimeter long, sometimes with small red dots near the bases. The fruit is a capsule about 3 centimeters long, containing 50 -100 tiny seeds.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Camissonia contorta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
