Plant Name
Scientific Name: Janusia gracilis
Common Name: Slender Janusia
Plant Characteristics
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Vine, Herb/Forb
Arizona Native Status: Native
Habitat: Desert, Upland
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering Season: Spring, Summer, Fall
Height: To 10 feet (3 m) long (if untangled)
Description: The flowers are up to 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) wide and have 5 wrinkled, spoon-shaped petals. The flowers are followed by 3-winged, usually reddish, hairy seedpods. The leaves are green, hairy, opposite, and narrowly lanceolate in shape. The slender, hairy stems twine through other plants.
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Polygalales
Family: Malpighiaceae – Barbados Cherry family
Genus: Janusia A. Juss. – janusia
Species: Janusia gracilis A. Gray – slender janusia
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