Smallflower Threadplant

(Nemacladus ramosissimus)

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Description

Nemacladus is a genus of flowering plants in the bellflower family known generally as threadplants. There are 18 accepted species native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. These are annual herbs with very slender, sometimes threadlike, branching stems bearing small five-lobed flowers.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Asterales
Family:Campanulaceae
Genus:Nemacladus
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