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Tripterocalyx micranthus
Also called Small Flowered Sand Verbena, Small Flowered Sandpuffs, Sandpuffs, Small Flower Sandpuffs, Smallflower Sand Verbena
Smallflower sandverbena is a small annual herb in the four o'clock family, native to dry prairies, sandy desert and sagebrush country in western North America. It grows quickly from seed in sandy, well-drained soil in full sun.
Tripterocalyx micranthus is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common names smallflower sandverbena and small-flowered sand-verbena.
It is native to North America, where it is known from southern Alberta and Saskatchewan through a section of the central United States toward the desert southwest in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. It can be found in several types of habitat, including sandy and scrubby desert regions and sagebrush.
Smallflower sandverbena is native to western North America in southern Canada and the central United States. In Canada it grows in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. In the US state of Montana it is mainly found in the eastern parts of the state and also in scattered areas of western North Dakota. To the south the species is only recorded in Harding County in South Dakota, but is widespread in Wyoming. Its range extends through many parts of eastern Colorado, but is only known from Moffat County in the west. In New Mexico it mainly grows in the northwest while it grows in the four northern counties of Arizona. The species is also widespread in Utah, however it is only known from Lincoln and Clark counties in Nevada and San Bernardino County in southern California.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tripterocalyx micranthus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
