| Scientific Name | Kallstroemia parviflora | ||||||||||||
| Family Name | Caltrop ( Zygophyllaceae ) | ||||||||||||
| 5 petals
Prostrate to decumbent (ie branch tips ascending) annual. Stems hirsute. To approx 3 ft. long. Leaves: to 6 cm long. Opposite with 3-5(-6) paired leaflets. One of each pair smaller. Petals 3.5 - 6 mm wide. Margins entire. Flower:5 (yellow -)orange petals, 5-11 mm long. Solitary in the axils of the smaller leaf of the pair. Peduncle equalling or commonly longer than subtending leaves. Fruit :Roughened or warty but not prickly. Separating into 10 sections. Beak of fruit persists after sections fall off. Beak of fruit 4-9 mm long, longer than the fruit body. | |||||||||||||
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Reference: George. Diggs, Jr., Barney Lipscomb and Robert O'Kennon Shinners & Mahler's Flora of North Central Texas p. 1076 | |||||||||||||
April - November
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Leaflets |