Tiquilia palmeri

Tiquilia palmeri
Conservation status
	; Apparently Secure (NatureServe)
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

^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Tiquilia palmeri". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
^ BLM. Coachella Valley Grasshopper. Species Accounts: Coachella Valley Desert Conservation Area Plan. Page E-11.

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[1] USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Tiquilia palmeri". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 11 December 2015.

[2] BLM. Coachella Valley Grasshopper. Species Accounts: Coachella Valley Desert Conservation Area Plan. Page E-11.

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