Mortonia
Mortonia is a small genus of flowering shrubs known as saddlebushes, sand paper bush or mortonias. These are rough, thorny, hairy shrubs with leathery leaves and panicles of fleshy white to purplish flowers. They bear nutlets containing 1 seed each. They are native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where they are most abundant in dry regions.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Utah Mortonia
speciesMortonia utahensis
Rio Grande saddlebush
speciesMortonia scabrella
Gregg's saddlebush
speciesMortonia greggii
Mortonia sempervirens
speciesMortonia sempervirens
Mortonia palmeri
speciesMortonia palmeri
Mortonia scaberrima
speciesMortonia scaberrima
Mortonia latisepala
speciesMortonia latisepala
Mortonia diffusa
speciesMortonia diffusa
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 72244.