Camissonia campestris

Camissonia campestris
	Camissonia campestris near Gorman, California
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Onagraceae
Genus:	Camissonia
Species:	C. campestris
Binomial name
	Camissonia campestris; (Greene) P.H.Raven

Camissonia campestris (field primrose,^[1]^: 238 Mojave sun cup,^[1]^: 238 or Mojave suncup), is a flowering plant in the family Onagraceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the United States. It grows mostly on open, sandy flats, occurring from sea level to 2,000 m in the western and central part of the desert.

It is an annual plant growing to 5-25 cm tall (rarely to 50 cm tall). The leaves are linear, 0.5-3 cm long, with a finely serrated margin. The flowers have four petals 5-15 mm long, yellow with a red spot at the base, fading orange to reddish.

References

^ ^a ^b Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd ed., 2013, ISBN 978-0-7627-8033-4

Jepson Flora Project: Camissonia campestris
Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 76

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[MDW-1] Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd ed., 2013, ISBN 978-0-7627-8033-4

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