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Shieldpod

Dithyrea

Also called Spectacle Pod

Shieldpod
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)

About

Dithyrea (shieldpod) is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae containing only one or two species. The California shieldpod or spectacle-pod, Dithyrea californica, is an abundant and unique-looking herb native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The beach shieldpod, Dithyrea maritima, a rare plant found only on the coast of California and Baja California, is sometimes considered a subspecies of D. californica.

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California shieldpod

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dithyrea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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