Kallstroemia grandiflora

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Kallstroemia grandiflora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Zygophyllales
Family: Zygophyllaceae
Genus: Kallstroemia
Species:
K. grandiflora
Binomial name
Kallstroemia grandiflora

Kallstroemia grandiflora, the Arizona poppy, is a summer annual herb of the deserts of the Southwestern United States, California, and northern Mexico.

Kallstroemia grandiflora has opposite, pinnately compound leaves. Large showy flowers often appear in abundance after summer monsoon rains, with bristly trichomes, stipules, and orange corollas.

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  • Kallstroemia grandiflora: the Arizona Poppy flower
    Kallstroemia grandiflora:
    the Arizona Poppy flower
  • Kallstroemia grandiflora spreads out across a hillside at Rockhound State Park
    Kallstroemia grandiflora spreads out across a hillside at Rockhound State Park

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