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Desmanthus bicornutus
Also called Ruby Bundleflower
Two-horn bundleflower is a small, upright legume shrub of dry Mexican and southwestern US grasslands, grown mainly as a forage and experimental crop. It tolerates heavy grazing and drought, and is valued for livestock feed and edible pods.
Desmanthus bicornutus is a species of flowering plant in the legume family native to northern and central Mexico and the southwestern United States. It is an "abundant roadside weed across its native range." It is known by the common names ruby bundleflower, two-horn bundleflower, and in Mexican Spanish malvilla de laguna.
Desmanthus bicornutus grows in the states of Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Sonora in Northern Mexico as well as the central states of Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, and Veracruz. In the United States, D. bicornutus grows naturally only in the state of Arizona.
In Guerrero, Mexico, D. bicornutus beans are used in the making of salsa.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Desmanthus bicornutus 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.
