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golden eardrops
Ehrendorferia chrysantha
Ehrendorferia chrysantha (syn. Dicentra chrysantha), with the common name golden eardrops, is a biennial to perennial plant in the family Papaveraceae.
It is native to dry, brushy areas prone to wildfire in diverse regions of California, and in Baja California.
From the article Ehrendorferia chrysantha on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Dicentra chrysantha has a taproot. Its leaves are blue-green, with many lobed leaflets. Flowers are yellow and aromatic, with the tips of two outer petals curved outward from two central petals, borne in panicles at the top of branched stems 1.5 m tall. Seeds are borne in a capsule 1–2 cm long. They usually do not germinate unless exposed to fire.
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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 58952.