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Mistmaidens
Romanzoffia
Romanzoffia is a genus of flowering plants in the waterleaf family known as mistmaids or mistmaidens. There are 5 species which are native to western North America from California north to Alaska. Mistmaids may be annual or perennial and low patchy herbs to small bushes, depending on species. They bear attractive bell-shaped white flowers that make them desirable as ornamentals in the appropriate climates.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Sitka Mistmaiden
speciesRomanzoffia sitchensis
California mistmaiden
speciesRomanzoffia californica
tracy's romanzoffia
speciesRomanzoffia tracyi
Thompson's Mistmaiden
speciesRomanzoffia thompsonii
Alaska mistmaiden
speciesRomanzoffia unalaschcensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 57857.