Intermountain Milkwort (Rhinotropis intermontana)
Description
Polygala intermontana-is a species of flowering plant in the-milkwort family-known by the common name-Intermountain milkwort. It is native to the southwestern United States from-Utah-to northern-Arizona-and far eastern-California, where it grows in desert scrub and woodland habitat. It is a small-shrub-growing erect or forming tangled, mats of thorny, highly branched stems. The stems are hairy in texture with white fibers. The sparse leaves are linear to oval in shape. The-inflorescence-bears one to seven flowers, each just a few millimeters in length. The flower has a winglike pair of greenish or whitish-sepals-and a keeled central petal that lacks the beaked tip of other-Polygala-species.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Fabales
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Family: Polygalaceae
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Genus: Rhinotropis
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