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Lewisiopsis tweedyi
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Lewisiopsis tweedyi is a flowering plant and sole species in genus Lewisiopsis. The species, formerly known as Cistanthe tweedyi and Lewisia tweedyi, is now classified in the family Montiaceae. The plant is known by the common names Tweedy's pussypaws, Tweedy's lewisia, or Tweedy's bitterroot. It is endemic to western North America in north-central Washington and adjacent British Columbia. It commonly grows on well-drained slopes often on rocky slopes or in rock crevices from low elevation ponderosa pine sites up to the drier part of the Grand Fir zone of the North Cascades. The flowers usually have a coral, apricot, or pink color.
- Family
- Montiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Lewisiopsis tweedyi
- Slug
- lewisiopsis-tweedyi
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Montiaceae
- Genus
- Lewisiopsis
- Species
- tweedyi
- Wikidata QID
- Q6537365
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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