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Mosquito Flower

Lopezia racemosa

3,447 observations in the source records

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) jsriley1984, no rights reserved (CC0)

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What the records say

3,447 observations are recorded in the imported source snapshot. Observation source

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.

Mexico	1,240
Mexico	181
Michoacan de Ocampo	153
Jalisco	86
Puebla	86
Oaxaca	84
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	60
Guanajuato	51
Morelos	42
Chiapas	40

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	myrtles, evening primroses, and allies · Myrtales
Family	evening primrose family · Onagraceae
Genus	Lopezia

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Mosquito Flower with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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