Amsinckia tessellata
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Amsinckia tessellata is a species of fiddleneck known by the common names bristly fiddleneck,[1] tessellate fiddleneck,[2] checker fiddleneck, and devil's lettuce.
The plant is native to dry regions of western North America, more specifically eastern Washington and Idaho, much of California and the Great Basin, to southwest New Mexico (U.S.) and northwest Sonora and Baja California in Mexico, usually below Script error: No such module "convert". elevation.[1][3][4]
It is a common plant in many types of habitats, including chaparral, oak woodland, xeric scrub, temperate valleys, disturbed areas, and deserts including the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert.
Description
Amsinckia tessellata is an 8–24 inches tall bristly annual herb similar in appearance to other fiddlenecks.
Its coiled inflorescence holds yellow to orange tubular flowers up to a centimeter wide at the corolla, which often has fewer than five lobes. Calyx lobes are not uniform in width and may be fused below the middle. The bloom period is March to June.[4][1]
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- Amsinckia
- Flora of British Columbia
- Flora of the Northwestern United States
- Flora of Arizona
- Flora of Baja California
- Flora of California
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of New Mexico
- Flora of Sonora
- Flora of Utah
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Flora of the Great Basin
- Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Plants described in 1874
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status