Tiquilia 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.

Tiquilia palmeri

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Tiquilia
Species:
T. palmeri
Binomial name
Tiquilia palmeri
(A.Gray) A.T.Richardson
Synonyms

Coldenia palmeri

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
  1. "Tiquilia palmeri". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  2. BLM. Coachella Valley Grasshopper. Species Accounts: Coachella Valley Desert Conservation Area Plan. Page E-11.


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