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Rough Yellow Alder

Turnera scabra

Rough Yellow Alder
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0
Family
Turneraceae (Turner family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. Mexico to S. Trop. America and Venezuelan Antilles
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

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Turnera scabra is a species of Turnera from Central to South America.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Turnera scabra 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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