Common Threadplant

Description

Nemacladus rigidus-is a species of flowering plant in the-bellflower family-known by the common name-stoutstem threadplant. It is native to the-Great Basin-in the United States, where it grows in open areas, often on bare soil. It is a small annual herb producing a thin, spreading purplish stem no more than 9 centimeters long. Oval leaves up to a centimeter long occur at the base of the plant. The-inflorescence-is a series of zigzagging branches bearing flowers on thin, curving-pedicels. There is a single tiny-bract-at the base of each pedicel. The flower is under 2 millimeters long. It has five red-veined white or purple-tinged lobes.