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Ehrendorferia
Sign in to saveEhrendorferia (eardrops) is a genus of two species of biennial or perennial herbaceous plants native to wildfire-prone areas of California and the Baja California peninsula. It was named after the Austrian botanist Friedrich Ehrendorfer on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderRanunculales
- FamilyPapaveraceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Papaveraceae
- Collections
- SBBG, MO
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
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Ehrendorferia (eardrops) is a genus of two species of biennial or perennial herbaceous plants native to wildfire-prone areas of California and the Baja California peninsula. It was named after the Austrian botanist Friedrich Ehrendorfer on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
==Species== There are two species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Ehrendorferia chrysantha (W. J. Hooker & G. Arnott) J. Rylander ||Golden Eardrops || California, and in Baja California. |- |120px ||Ehrendorferia ochroleuca (G. Engelmann) T. Fukuhara ||white eardrops or yellow bleeding-heart || California (Peninsular, Transverse, and southern Coast Ranges) and in Baja California. |- |}
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ehrendorferia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.