Yellow stingbush Yellow stingbush

Herbs or subshrubs, annual or perennial, moundlike to spindle-shaped (wider than tall). Leaves: blade shallowly to prominently lobed. Pedicels (fruiting) 3–35+ cm, frequently recurved. Flowers radially symmetric or slightly bilaterally symmetric through upward curvature of stamen filaments; corolla funnelform, petals connate to 3 mm, 1-colored, yellow, spatulate, 10–55[–58] mm; stamens 15–150+, inserted at base of corolla, exserted, spreading away from style; filaments 13–60 mm, longer than anthers.

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora): Texas, n Mexico.

SELECTED REFERENCE Turner, B. L. 2012b. Taxonomy of Eucnide bartonioides (Loasaceae) complex in Texas. Phytologia 94: 305–309.

Lower Taxa

• Eucnide bartonioides var. bartonioides
• Eucnide bartonioides var. edwardsiana B. L. Turner
• Loasaceae Jussieu