Nama pusillum

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Nama pusillum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Nama
Species:
N. pusillum
Binomial name
Nama pusillum
Lemmon ex A.Gray

Nama pusillum (also, Nama pusilla) is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name eggleaf fiddleleaf. It is native to the deserts of eastern California and Nevada and Arizona, where it grows in sandy and rocky habitat.

Nama pusillum is a hairy annual plant forming a small patch of prostrate stems no more than about 6 centimeters long. The fuzzy reddish or green leaves are up to a centimeter long and oval or lance-shaped, with winged petioles. The tiny funnel-shaped flowers are white to pale pink in color and have five-lobed faces just 1 or 2 millimeters wide.


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