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Triglochin calcitrapa is a small annual herb from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly by botanists and specialist collectors. Its fruit has six long, spreading spines that look like a caltrop, which gives it its name.
Triglochin calcitrapa is a species of flowering plant in the family Juncaginaceae, first described by William Jackson Hooker in 1848, and native to south-west Western Australia.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
