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Field Madder

Richardia stellaris

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) claytonwt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

Tropical Mexican CloverRichardia brasiliensis

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.

Australia	127
New South Wales	66
Queensland	60
Uruguay	4
New Zealand	2
Argentina	2
South Africa	2
Northland Region	2
Córdoba	2
Corrientes	2

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

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies · Gentianales
Family	madder family · Rubiaceae
Genus	Mexican clovers · Richardia

Study it in a deck

Plants of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

Practise Field Madder 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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