Fagonia is a genus of flowering plant

Flowering plant

The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

s in the caltrop

Tribulus terrestris

Tribulus terrestris is a flowering plant in the family Zygophyllaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Old World in southern Europe, southern Asia, throughout Africa, and Australia. It can thrive even in desert climates and poor soil...

 family, Zygophyllaceae

Zygophyllaceae

The Zygophyllaceae is a family of flowering plants that contains the bean-caper and caltrop. It includes around 285 species in 22 genera.In the APG III system of classification, the families Zygophyllaceae and Krameriaceae compose the order Zygophyllales...

. The roughly 18 species it contains are commonly known as fagonbushes. Their distribution includes parts of Africa

Africa

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, the Mediterranean Basin

Mediterranean Basin

In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin refers to the lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation...

, and parts of the Americas

Americas

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.

Fagonia laevis

Fagonia laevis

Fagonia laevis is a species of plant in the Zygophyllaceae, the Caltrop family, specifically the fagonbushes. It is a perennial subshrub of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico desert regions in California, southern Nevada, Arizona, southwest Utah, Sonora, Baja California and...

is a perennial herb of the United States

United States

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 desert southwest. It has opposite leaves, trifoliate with spinescent stipule

Stipule

In botany, stipule is a term coined by Linnaeus which refers to outgrowths borne on either side of the base of a leafstalk...

s, a pink corolla and smooth fruits.

Selected species

• Fagonia albiflora
• Fagonia arabica L.
• Fagonia chilensis
• Fagonia cretica
  Fagonia cretica
  Fagonia cretica is a species of plant in the Zygophyllaceae, the Caltrop family, specifically the fagonbushes. It is found in Alicante Province, Spain and the Balearic Islands....
  
  L.
• Fagonia glutinosa
• Fagonia laevis
  Fagonia laevis
  Fagonia laevis is a species of plant in the Zygophyllaceae, the Caltrop family, specifically the fagonbushes. It is a perennial subshrub of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico desert regions in California, southern Nevada, Arizona, southwest Utah, Sonora, Baja California and...
  
  Standl.
  Paul Carpenter Standley
  Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
  
  (=Fagonia californica) – California Fagonbush
• Fagonia mollis
• Fagonia pachyacantha
  Fagonia pachyacantha
  Fagonia pachyacantha is a species of flowering plant in the caltrop family known by the common name sticky fagonbush. It is native to the Sonoran Desert of Northwest Mexico in Sonora and the Lower Colorado River Valley area at the California and Arizona border.-Description:Fagonia pachyacantha is a...
  
  Rydb.
  Per Axel Rydberg
  Per Axel Rydberg was a Swedish-born, American botanist who was the first curator of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. -Biography:...
  
  – Sticky Fagonbush
• Fagonia paulyana
• Fagonia scabra

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment
• USDA Plants Profile

Mediterranean Species:

• Refers to 30 species & medical history/common names - goredsea.com