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Blue fiestaflower

Pholistoma auritum

Also called Fiesta Flower

Blue fiestaflower
Photo: Mike Baird from Morro Bay, USA, CC BY 2.0
Family
Hydrophyllaceae (Hydrophyll family)
Native range
SW. U.S.A. to NW. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Pholistoma auritum is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrophyllaceae. It is known by the common name blue fiestaflower.

Where it grows

It is native to California, southern Nevada, and Arizona, where it can be found in many types of habitat, from mountain talus to coastal bluffs to desert scrub.

Other Pholistoma plants

White fiestaflower · Racemed fiestaflower · Pholistoma

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pholistoma auritum 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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