Fagonia pachyacantha |
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fagonis, sticky fagonbush, sticky fagonia |
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Stems | ± prostrate, radiating from plant base, sparsely branched, dark green, not noticeably slender, ultimate branches densely short-stipitate- to subsessile-glandular, glands globular (drying to cup-shaped), golden (making branches appear yellowish from a distance), 1 mm diam.; older stems glabrate basally, not scabrous. |
Leaves | (1–)3-foliolate; stipules straight, spreading to slightly reflexed, stout, linear-subulate, 3–16 mm, about as long as petioles, glandular to glabrate; petiole 2–16 mm, glandular to glabrate; leaflets ovate to elliptic, slightly obovate, or linear and terete, glandular, becoming glabrate, ± as long as or longer than petiole, apex spinulose, often fleeting, terminal to 26 × 10 mm, laterals to 20 × 7 mm, shorter and narrower than terminal, one or both commonly caducous. |
Pedicels | 1–7 mm, glandular. |
Flowers | to 1.5 cm diam.; sepals green to purple, ovate-lanceolate, 2–4 × 1–1.5 mm, apiculate, glandular to glabrate; petals light to dark red-purple, 5–8 × 2.5–5.5 mm; stamen filaments 3.5–5 mm; ovary 2 mm, glandular, hairy; style 2–3 mm. |
Capsules | 3.5–5.5 × 4–5 mm, puberulent, usually glandular; style 1.5–4 mm, not or barely wider at base. |
Perennial | herbs or subshrubs, to 0.6 m, to 1 m diam. |
Fagonia pachyacantha |
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Phenology | Flowering Nov–May. |
Habitat | Flat, sandy or rocky desert habitats. |
Elevation | 0–500 m. (0–1600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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Discussion | Fagonia pachyacantha is found only in the Sonoran Desert. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 31. |
Parent taxa | Zygophyllaceae > Fagonia |
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Synonyms | F. californica var. glutinosa |
Name authority | Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 25: 105. (1910) |
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