Plant Name
Scientific Name: Thysanocarpus curvipes
Synonyms: Thysanocarpus amplectens, T. elegans
Common Names: Sand Fringepod, Sand Lacepod, Lacepod Mustard
Plant Characteristics
Duration: Annual
Growth Habit: Herb/Forb
Arizona Native Status: Native
Habitat: Desert, Upland
Flower Color: White to tinged purple
Flowering Season: Winter, Spring
Height: To 30 inches (76 cm) tall
Description: The flowers are 1/4 inch (6 mm) wide and have 4 petals and 4 sepals. The flowers are followed by very distinctive, flat, disk-shaped, green seedpods with pinkish, scalloped, perforated edges. The leaves are green, narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate in shape, and most are either basal or clasp the lower stems. The plants are slender and rather inconspicuous despite their unusual fringed seedpods.
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Capparales
Family: Brassicaceae – Mustard family
Genus: Thysanocarpus Hook. – fringepod
Species: Thysanocarpus curvipes Hook. – sand fringepod
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