Tragia ramosa
Tragia ramosa is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family known by the common names branched noseburn[1] and desert tragia.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Genus: | Tragia |
| Species: | T. ramosa |
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It is native to the southern Great Plains, South Central, and Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. It grows in scrub, woodland, and other desert and plateau habitat.
Description
Tragia ramosa is a perennial herb growing mostly erect, measuring 10 to 30 centimeters in maximum height. It is covered in long, rough stinging hairs.[2] The leaves have lance-shaped or oval blades with toothed edges which are borne on petioles.
The plant is monoecious. Its inflorescence contains a few male flowers and usually one female flower. The flowers lack petals but have green sepals.
The female flower yields a small capsule.
References
- "Tragia ramosa". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- Thurston, E. L. (1976). Morphology, fine structure and ontogeny of the stinging emergence of Tragia ramosa and T. saxicola (Euphorbiaceae). American Journal of Botany 63:6 710-18.
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