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Mojave halimolobos

Halimolobos jaegeri

Also called Mojave Fissurewort, Rock Mustard

Mojave halimolobos
Photo: Jim Morefield from Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
California to Nevada
Climate
temperate

About

Halimolobos jaegeri is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known by the common names Mojave fissurewort, or Mojave halimolobos. It is native to the Mojave Desert and nearby mountain ranges of California and Nevada. It grows in rocky areas, such as the limestone cliffs and slopes of the desert mountains.

This is a slightly woolly perennial plant growing many branching herbaceous stems to 20 to 60 centimeters in height. The slender erect stems bear occasional lobed, ruffled leaves up to 6 centimeters long. At the tips of stem branches are dense, fuzzy inflorescences of small white-petalled flowers with six protruding stamens. The fruit is a hairy silique one or two centimeters long containing many tiny seeds.

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Fissurewort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Halimolobos jaegeri 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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