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Cotyledon tomentosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to South Africa. It is a succulent evergreen shrub with large chunky ovate fuzzy green leaves. Its autonymous subspecies is known as the bear's paw because of the prominent "teeth" at the tips of its leaves. It forms large orange bell-shaped flowers in spring.
Arctomecon californica is a herbaceous perennial found in Creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) habitats, in barren shales with gypsum substrates, at 500–1,000 metres (1,600–3,300 ft) in elevation.
Arctomecon is a genus of the poppy family Papaveraceae commonly called the bear poppies or bear-paw poppies, after the distinctive appearance of the leaves. The three species occur only in the northeastern part of the Mojave Desert of North America , and are all uncommon.
The plant gets its name from the resemblance the leaves have to a bear paw. The stems of the plant are a light yellow-green color. The stems grow between 2 and 9 cm (0.8 to 3.5 in) tall and lift the flowers above the leaves of the plant. [2] Dwarf bear-poppy plants form in individual clusters. [1]
Cistanthe is a plant genus which includes most plants known as pussypaws. These are small, succulent flowering plants which often bear brightly colored flowers, though they vary quite a bit between species in appearance. Some species have flowers that are tightly packed into fluffy-looking inflorescences, the trait that gives them their common ...
The genus includes the widespread common pawpaw Asimina triloba, which bears the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States. [5] Pawpaws are native to 26 states of the U.S. and to Ontario in Canada. [5] [6] The common pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottomland and hilly upland ...
Asimina pygmaea, the dwarf pawpaw or gopher berry, is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae.It is native to Florida and Georgia in the United States. [2] William Bartram, the American naturalist who first formally described the species using the basionym Annona pygmaea, named it after its dwarfed (pygmaeus in Latin) stature.
This plant is a low, spreading shrub growing up to 15 centimetres (5.9 inches) tall. The leaves are 2 to 6 centimetres (0.79 to 2.36 inches) long and marcescent , remaining on the shrub as they die. The inflorescence is a hairy, glandular raceme of up to 6 flowers, each about half a centimeter long.