Cushion Cryptantha

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

I'm still very impressed how you manage to tell the enormous quantity of plants that you find apart! Posted 9 years ago
1. morpheme
  
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  I have two good resources and often there are other photos I take just for ID purposes. Even then I'm not always 100% sure, but when there are several species that are really similar, the sites that I use for ID are very good about listing locations pretty specifically, so the area and the elevation can often be used to narrow the choices down even more. The very different climates on each side of the mountains actually helps - while there are things that do fine on both sides, many plants and animals are only on one side or the other. Posted 9 years ago

The Cushion cryptantha

''Cryptantha circumscissa'' is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name cushion cryptantha. It is native to western North America from Washington to Baja California to Colorado, where it grows in many types of habitat from mountains to desert. It is also known from Argentina. This is an annual herb producing a short, bristly, multibranched stem tangled into a mat no more than 10 centimeters tall. It grows from a red taproot which dries purple. The leaves are up.. more

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Similar species: Boraginales

Species identified by morpheme