Kallstroemia californica (S.Watson) Vail is a plant in the Zygophyllaceae family, order Zygophyllales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Kallstroemia californica (S.Watson) Vail

Kallstroemia californica (S.Watson) Vail

Kallstroemia californica is a mat-forming annual herb that grows on sandy substrates and produces distinct flowers and fruit.

Genus
Kallstroemia
Order
Zygophyllales
Class
Magnoliopsida
⚠️ Toxicity Note

Insufficient toxicity evidence; avoid direct contact and ingestion.

About Kallstroemia californica (S.Watson) Vail

Kallstroemia californica is a mat-forming annual herb. It grows in thick, carpet-like masses on sandy substrates. Its branching stem bears compound leaves; each leaf is composed of several widely spaced pairs of small, oval-shaped green leaflets. This species produces single flowers, each with five rounded or oval petals and a ring of ten stamens. Its fruit is a small body a few millimeters wide, made up of ten conjoined nutlets that later split apart.

Photo: (c) Ginni Callahan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ginni Callahan · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Zygophyllales Zygophyllaceae Kallstroemia

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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