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Canbya candida

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Canbya candida
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C. candida
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Canbya candida
Parry ex A.Gray

Canbya candida (common names: pygmy poppy, white pygmy poppy) is a tiny, white flowered annual plant in the Canbya genus of the poppy family. It is found in the western Mojave Desert of Southern California. It grows 1–3 cm (381+18 in) tall. Its leaves are 5–9 mm (3161132 in) long. The flowers are borne in leaf axils, and have 5–7 white petals that are each 3–4 mm (18532 in) long, and 6-9 stamens.

References

  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). "Canbya candida". Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). "Canbya". Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  • "Canbya candida". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
  • Christopher Grey-Wilson, 2000: Poppies, p.229. Portland: Timber Press ISBN 0-88192-503-9
  • Hitchcock, C. H., A.J. Cronquist, F. M. Ownbey & J. W. Thompson. 1984: Salicaceae to Saxifragaceae. Part II: 1–597. In: C. L. Hitchcock, Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.