Status: Native
Synonyms:
Thysanocarpus amplectens Greene
Thysanocarpus curvipes is a diminutive, frail plant. There is usually one
erect stem, and the flowers are minute and white. The fruit is the distinctive
characteristic-- it is flat and round, and the edge is smoothly and transparently winged around
what otherwise would have been a toothed margin. Thysanocarpus curvipes grows on
dry hillsides at middle elevations.
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Thysanocarpus curvipes, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Burro Mtns., Wild Horse Canyon, Apr. 4, 2007
Thysanocarpus curvipes, 2x field macro of fruit, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Arrastre Gulch, Apr. 10, 2009
Thysanocarpus curvipes, 2x field macro of fruit, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Arrastre Gulch, Apr. 10, 2009
Thysanocarpus curvipes, closeup of fruit, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Arrastre Gulch, Apr. 10, 2009
Thysanocarpus curvipes, closeup of flower and fruit, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Arrastre Gulch, Apr. 10, 2009
Thysanocarpus curvipes, glabrous, clasping leaves, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Arrastre Gulch, Apr. 10, 2009
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