Yellow pygmy-poppy facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Yellow pygmy-poppy |
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Canbya
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aurea
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The Yellow Pygmy-Poppy (scientific name: Canbya aurea) is a tiny and special plant. It's called "pygmy" because it's so small! This plant is found only in certain cool desert areas of the western United States.
Where It Lives
The Yellow Pygmy-Poppy is an endemic plant. This means it naturally grows only in a specific part of the world. For this poppy, that special place is the northern deserts of the western United States.
You can find it in central and southeastern Oregon and northwestern Nevada. It has also been seen in Mono County, California.
This little plant likes dry, sandy soil. It often grows near sagebrush, which is a common shrub found in these desert areas. It lives at elevations between 900–1,700 metres (3,000–5,600 ft) (about 2,950 to 5,575 feet) above sea level.
What It Looks Like
The Yellow Pygmy-Poppy is a very small plant. It usually grows to be less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) (about 0.8 inches) tall. It branches out right from the ground.
Its leaves are a bit thick and shaped like narrow lines or ovals. They don't have any teeth or lobes on their edges. Each leaf can be up to 10 millimetres (0.39 in) (about 0.4 inches) long.
The flowers of the Yellow Pygmy-Poppy are bright yellow. They can be up to 10 mm (about 0.4 inches) wide.
