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Arizona Broomrape

Aphyllon arizonicum

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 Utah.January 1, February 1, March 2, April 2, May 10, June 2, July 2, August 1, September 4, October 1, November 1, December 1.
United States42
Utah20
Arizona12
Colorado11
New Mexico2
Nevada2

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

Traits

Group and habits

  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familybroomrape family · Orobanchaceae
GenusAphyllon

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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