Tiquilia palmeri

Tiquilia palmeri

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: (unplaced)
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Tiquilia
Species: T. palmeri
Binomial name
Tiquilia palmeri
(A.Gray) A.T.Richardson
Synonyms

Coldenia palmeri

Tiquilia palmeri is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names Palmer's crinklemat[1] and Palmer's tiquilia.

It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in sandy desert areas.

Description

Tiquilia palmeri is a woody perennial herb producing a white-barked, shaggy-haired stem. The clustered leaves have small, hairy, wrinkled blades rarely more than a centimeter long which are borne on longer petioles.

The inflorescence is a cluster of flowers borne in the leaf axils. Each flower has a bell-shaped purple, lavender, or bluish corolla up to a centimeter long with a short, tubular throat.

This is the main host plant for the rare Coachella Valley grasshopper (Spaniacris deserticola).[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Tiquilia palmeri". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  2. ↑ BLM. Coachella Valley Grasshopper. Species Accounts: Coachella Valley Desert Conservation Area Plan. Page E-11.
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