Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides

taxobox
name = Daggerpod

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image_caption = Daggerpod plant
status = secure
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Brassicales
familia = Brassicaceae
genus = "Phoenicaulis"
species = "P. cheiranthoides"
binomial = "Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides"
binomial_authority = Torr. & A. Gray|

Daggerpod ("Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides") is a small herb of sagebrush country, in the inland western United States. It has pink or light purple flowers, and is one of the first plants to bloom in the spring in its area. The fruit is lance-shaped, long compared to its width, and rather hard when dry, from which the common name "daggerpod" derives. It thrives in rocky volcanic soils as well as clay, and likes open, sunny areas in the sagebrush scrub. It is the only member of this genus, [ [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?2240,2567,2568 Jepson Manual Treatment: "Phoenicaulis"] ] although the similar plant "Anelsonia eurycarpa" is sometimes treated in synonymy with this genus as "P. eurycarpa". [ [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?2240,2246,2247 Jepson Manual Treatment: "Anelsonia"] ]

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