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Cliffroses and Bitterbrushes
Purshia
Purshia (bitterbrush or cliff-rose) is a small genus of 5-8 species of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae, native to western North America, where they grow in dry climates from southeast British Columbia in Canada south throughout the western United States to northern Mexico. The classification of Purshia within the Rosaceae has been unclear. The genus was originally placed in the subfamily Rosoideae, but is now placed in subfamily Dryadoideae.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Antelope Bitterbrush
speciesPurshia tridentata
Stansbury's Cliffrose
speciesPurshia stansburyana
desert bitterbrush
speciesPurshia glandulosa
Pink Cliffrose
speciesPurshia plicata
Mexican cliffrose
speciesPurshia mexicana
Chihuahuan cliffrose
speciesPurshia ericifolia
Arizona Cliffrose
speciesPurshia subintegra
Pinkava's Cliffrose
speciesPurshia pinkavae
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 60457.