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Hymenoclea monogyra (also, Ambrosia monogyra) is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name singlewhorl burrobrush. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in deserts and adjacent mountains and dry valleys. This is a thickly branching shrub reaching heights from one to four meters. The thin stems are covered in narrow, hairy leaves and flower in large flower clusters of staminate and pistillate flowers. The staminate flowers have translucent white corollas and the pistillate flowers are rounded, fruit-bearing structures. The fruit is an achene with a single whorl of several papery wings.

Plant type

Shrub

Size

3 - 13 ft Tall

Special uses

Hedge

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Very Low

Site type

Washes, dry riverbeds

Plant communities

Chaparral

Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

0 confirmed and 16 likely

Confirmed Likely

Garden Webworm Moth

Achyra rantalis

Ambrosia Plume Moth

Adaina ambrosiae

Ancylosis morrisonella

Animomyia smithii