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California eryngo

Eryngium aristulatum

Also called Jepson's Button Celery

California eryngo
Photo: Susan Wynn, USFWS 2010, Public domain
Family
Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Grows as
Perennial
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
California to NW. Mexico
Climate
temperate

About

Eryngium aristulatum, known by the common names California eryngo and Jepson's button celery, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.

Where it grows

This plant is native to California and Baja California where it grows in wet places, such as vernal pools and flooded meadows. It is found in coast redwood forest, California mixed evergreen forest, California foothill oak woodland, yellow pine forest, chaparral, coastal sage scrub, coastal salt marsh, and wetland-riparian habitats.

Other Eryngium plants

Alpine Sea Holly · Amethyst eryngo · Rattlesnakemaster · Eryngium arenosum · Coastal eryngo · Beethistle · Eryngium babadaghense · Baldwin's eryngo · Eryngium billardieri · Eryngium bithynicum · Amethyst Eryngo · Field eryngo

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eryngium aristulatum 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.

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