Climbing Wartclub Flower Climbing Wartclub Plant

Wildflowers of Southern Arizona


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Climbing Wartclub.
Boerhavia scandens.
Four O'Clock (Nyctaginaceae) family.

The 5-lobed flowers are clustered in 2.4 inch (6 cm) wide umbels of 4 to 11 flowers. The leaves are green, triangular to heart-shaped, and opposite with leaf pairs of unequal sizes. The stems are sprawling or climbing and usually tangled in other plants.

Sabino Canyon Recreation Area
Location: On bluff trail near entrance to canyon and road.
4/7/15

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