Canbya candida

Canbya candida
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Papaveraceae
Genus:	Canbya
Species:	C. candida
Binomial name
Canbya candida Parry ex A.Gray

Canbya candida (common names: pygmy poppy, white pygmy poppy) is a tiny, white flowered annual plant in the genus Canbya of the poppy family. It is found in the western Mojave Desert of Southern California. It grows 1–3 cm (3⁄8–1+1⁄8 in) tall. Its leaves are 5–9 mm (3⁄16–11⁄32 in) long. The flowers are borne in leaf axils, and have 5–7 white petals that are each 3–4 mm (1⁄8–5⁄32 in) long, and 6-9 stamens.

References

• Clark, Curtis; Kiger, Robert W. (1997). "Canbya candida". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 3. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
• "Canbya candida". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
• Grey-Wilson, Christopher (2000). Poppies. Portland: Timber Press. p. 229. ISBN 0-88192-503-9.
• Hitchcock, C. H.; Cronquist, A.J.; Ownbey, F. M.; Thompson, J. W. (1984). "Salicaceae to Saxifragaceae". In Hitchcock, C. L. (ed.). Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest. Vol. 2. Seattle: University of Washington Press.