Mentzelia reflexa Coville is a plant in the Loasaceae family, order Cornales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Mentzelia reflexa Coville

Mentzelia reflexa Coville

Mentzelia reflexa Coville is a small annual clumped herb with pale yellow flowers and tiny bumpy white seeds.

Family
Genus
Mentzelia
Order
Cornales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Mentzelia reflexa Coville

Mentzelia reflexa Coville is an annual herb that grows to a maximum height of 20 centimeters, and takes on a rounded or clumped growth form. It produces abundant leaves that can reach up to 10 centimeters in length, with toothed edges. Its inflorescence is a cluster of flowers, where each individual flower has eight pale yellow petals. The fruit it produces is a cylindrical utricle that measures roughly one centimeter long, and contains many tiny, bumpy white seeds.

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

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Cornales Loasaceae Mentzelia

More from Loasaceae

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

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