PLANTS Profile for Lycium pallidum (pale desert-thorn)

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Lycium pallidum Miers
pale desert-thorn

Symbol:

LYPA

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Solanaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Shrub

Native Status:

L48

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Lycium pallidum Miers

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Distribution:
Lycium pallidum Miers


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Related Taxa:
Lycium pallidum Miers

View 42 genera in Solanaceae, 22 species in Lycium or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.

Distribution of Lycium pallidum Miers var. oligospermum C.L. Hitchc.. .

Lycium pallidum var. oligospermum
rabbit thorn

Distribution of Lycium pallidum Miers var. pallidum. .

Lycium pallidum var. pallidum
pale desert-thorn

Native

Introduced

Classification:
Lycium pallidum Miers

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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	Solanales
Family	Solanaceae – Potato family
Genus	Lycium L. – desert-thorn
Species	Lycium pallidum Miers – pale desert-thorn

More Accounts and Images:
Lycium pallidum Miers

View species account from USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (FEIS).

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 30544.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

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

Time Generated: 05/25/2013 12:32 AM CDT