Plants › caltrops

Warty Caltrop

Kallstroemia parviflora

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

All photos25

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

See all photos Add a photo

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

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

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.

United States	1,794
Texas	788
New Mexico	412
Arizona	309
California	145
Nevada	80
Oklahoma	63
Mexico	47
Colorado	23
Chihuahua	21

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

Traits

Group and habits

Toxic to humansListed as toxic or not suitable as food for humans by a harvested source.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Forb or herb growth formListed by a harvested source as having a forb or herbaceous growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
Annual plantListed by a harvested source as having an annual life duration.USDA PLANTS Characteristics

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	Caltrops and Ratanies · Zygophyllales
Family	caltrops · Zygophyllaceae
Genus	Kallstroemia

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)
Traits: USDA PLANTS Characteristics (U.S. Government work / public domain)
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

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

Create a free account How it works