Nemacladus | |
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Nemacladus orientalis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Campanulaceae |
Subfamily: | Nemacladoideae |
Genus: | Nemacladus Nutt. |
Synonyms[1] | |
Parishella A.Gray |
Nemacladus is a genus of flowering plants in the bellflower family known generally as threadplants. Species are native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.[1][2][3] These are annual herbs with very slender, sometimes threadlike, branching stems bearing small five-lobed flowers.