Kallstroemia grandiflora

Kallstroemia grandiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Zygophyllales
Family: Zygophyllaceae
Genus: Kallstroemia
Species: K. grandiflora
Binomial name
Kallstroemia grandiflora
A.Gray

Kallstroemia grandiflora, or 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.

Kallstroemia grandiflora:
the Arizona Poppy flower


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