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Fagonia laevis
Also called California fagonia, Small Flower Fagonia
A low, spreading desert subshrub from the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico that forms mounds up to about 18 inches tall with small purple-lavender star-shaped flowers. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and very little water.
Fagonia laevis, the California fagonbush, is a species of plant in the Zygophyllaceae, the caltrop family. It is a perennial subshrub of the southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico desert regions in California, southern Nevada, Arizona, southwest Utah, Sonora, Baja California and Baja California Sur. It thrives upon hot, dry, slopes and hillsides that also receive seasonal-(winters of the Southwest) or monsoon moisture.
Virgin's Mantle · Sticky fagonbush · Fagonbush · Zygophyllum chilense · Zygophyllum zilloides
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