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Horwoodia

Plants

Family: Brassicaceae

2 species in the Library

About

Horwoodia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Horwoodia dicksoniae, an herbaceous annual native to desert regions of Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia in the northern Arabian Peninsula. The plant is branched from the base, growing 10 to 43 cm tall from a taproot. It has fragrant leaves. It typically grows in sandy desert soils, and occasionally in loose silty soil with stones, in open depressions and wadi beds.

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