Curvenut Combseed

Description

Pectocarya recurvata-is a species of flowering plant in the-borage family-known by the common names-curvenut combseed-and-arched-nut pectocarya. It is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, where it grows in many types of desert habitat. It is an annual herb producing a slender, rough-haired stem, generally upright to erect in form to a maximum height of about 21 centimeters. The small, pointed linear leaves alternately arranged along the stem. The-inflorescence-is a series of flowers, each on a curved-pedicel. The flower has small green-sepals-and a rounded white corolla. The fruits, borne in groups of four, are curved nutlets fringed with flat teeth, each measuring 2.5 to 4 millimeters long.