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Ghost flower

Mohavea confertiflora

Also called Mojave Flower

Ghost flower
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Grows as
Annual
Water
Drought tolerant
Native range
Nevada to Mexico (Baja California, Sonora)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Mohavea confertiflora, the ghost flower, is a plant of the family Plantaginaceae. It is a native of the Southwestern United States, southern California, and three states of northwest Mexico.

It is found growing in the arid conditions of the Mojave Desert and the Sonoran Desert (including Colorado Desert), below 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) in elevation. It also grows in those deserts' sky islands habitats.

Other Mohavea plants

Golden desert-snapdragon · Mohavea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mohavea confertiflora 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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