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Sierra man-root
Marah horrida
Marah horrida, common name Sierra manroot, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cucurbitaceae, endemic to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and the Tehachapi Mountains in California. It grows in open and shrubby areas below 1,000 m (3,300 ft) elevation.
From the article Marah horrida on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Marah horrida is a perennial vine growing from a large, branched tuber. It produces a climbing stem with tendrils and many lobed, rounded leaves. The flowers are white. The fruit is an oblong, densely prickly capsule 9–20 cm (5–10 in) long, containing 6-24 seeds, each 26–32 mm (1.0–1.3 in) long.
== References ==
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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 77958.