Brewer's redmaids

Calandrinia breweri

Summary 3

Calandrinia breweri is a species of flowering plant in the purslane family known by the common name Brewer's redmaids. It is native to the coastal mountains and canyons of California and Baja California, where it grows in several types of habitat, including recently burned and otherwise disturbed areas. It is an annual herb producing thick, hairless stems up to 45 centimeters long which may grow upright or sprawl along the ground. The thick leaves are oval...

On Mt. D 4

Apparently this is larger and more trailing than the normal red maids.

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) 2009 Dean Wm. Taylor, Ph.D., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=281525&one=T
  2. (c) 2009 Barry Breckling, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=292572&one=T
  3. Adapted by Ken-ichi Ueda from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calandrinia_breweri
  4. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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