PLANTS Profile for Cryptantha flava (Brenda's yellow cryptantha)

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PLANTS Profile

Cryptantha flava (A. Nelson) Payson
Brenda's yellow cryptantha

Symbol:

CRFL5

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Boraginaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Subshrub
Forb/herb

L48

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Cryptantha flava (A. Nelson) Payson

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Synonyms:
Cryptantha flava (A. Nelson) Payson

ORFL2

Oreocarya flava A. Nelson

Distribution:
Cryptantha flava (A. Nelson) Payson


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USA (AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY)

Related Taxa:
Cryptantha flava (A. Nelson) Payson

View 42 genera in Boraginaceae, 116 species in Cryptantha

Classification:
Cryptantha flava (A. Nelson) Payson

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Lamiales
Family	Boraginaceae – Borage family
Genus	Cryptantha Lehm. ex G. Don – cryptantha
Species	Cryptantha flava (A. Nelson) Payson – Brenda's yellow cryptantha

More Accounts and Images:
Cryptantha flava (A. Nelson) Payson

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 31770.

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

Time Generated: 05/21/2013 02:17 PM CDT