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Moth combseed

Pectocarya setosa

Also called Round Nut Pectocarya

Moth combseed
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Native range
Mexico (Baja California Norte)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Pectocarya setosa, known by the common names moth combseed and round-nut pectocarya, is a species of flowering plant in the borage family.

Where it grows

The plant is native to western North America, in Northwestern Mexico in Baja California and Sonora, and the Pacific Northwest and Southwestern United States.

Other Pectocarya plants

Chuckwalla combseed · Sleeping combseed · Peninsular pectocarya · Broadfruit combseed · Little combseed · Curvenut combseed · Combseed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pectocarya setosa 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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