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Mountain meadowfoam

Limnanthes montana

Family
Limnanthaceae (Limnanth family)
Grows as
Annual
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
California
Climate
temperate

About

Limnanthes montana is a species of meadowfoam known by the common name mountain meadowfoam. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, where it grows in wet, grassy habitat such as marshy spring meadows.

Other Limnanthes plants

White meadowfoam · Baker's meadowfoam · Foothill Meadowfoam · Douglas' meadowfoam · Woolly meadowfoam · Macoun's meadowfoam · Sebastopol meadowfoam · Meadowfoam

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Limnanthes montana 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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