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Arizona poppy

Kallstroemia grandiflora

Also called Mexican Poppy, Desert Poppy, Orange Caltrop

Arizona poppy
Photo: User:Pompilid, CC BY 2.5
Family
Zygophyllaceae (Zygophyll family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Arizona to Texas and Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Kallstroemia grandiflora, the Arizona poppy, is a species of summer annual herb inhabiting the deserts of the Southwestern United States, California, and northern Mexico. It is not related to true poppies.

Kallstroemia grandiflora has opposite, pinnately compound leaves. Large showy flowers often appear in abundance after summer monsoon rains, with bristly trichomes, stipules, and orange corollas.

Other Kallstroemia plants

California caltrop · Warty caltrop · Caltrop

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Kallstroemia grandiflora 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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