Bernardia myricifolia

Bernardia myricifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Bernardieae
Genus: Bernardia
Species: B. myricifolia
Binomial name
Bernardia myricifolia
(Scheele) S.Wats.
Synonyms

Bernardia incana
Tyria myricifolia

Bernardia myricifolia is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family known by the common names mouse's eye. It is also called mouse ear, or oreja de ratón in Spanish.[1] It is native to the desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico. This is a shrub growing over two meters in maximum height. The small leaves are each up to three centimeters long, oval in shape, with scallop-shaped teeth along the edges. A dioecious species, male and female individuals produce different types of flowers. Staminate inflorescences are small clusters of male flowers, and pistillate inflorescences bear solitary female flowers. The fruit is a roughly rounded woolly capsule with three prominent chambers, each containing a seed.

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