Canbya

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| image_caption = Pygmy poppy (Canbya candida)

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| taxon = Canbya

| authority = Parry ex A.Gray

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| subdivision = * Canbya aurea

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Canbya, also known as the pygmy poppies, is a genus of the poppy family Papaveraceae consisting of two species found in the dry parts of western North America. Both species are small, no more than a few centimeters tall, with flowers less than 10 mm across.

The genus was named after well-known amateur botanist William Marriott Canby (1831–1904).

Species

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ImageNameDistribution
120pxCanbya aurea - yellow pygmy-poppyCentral and southeastern Oregon and northwestern Nevada
120pxCanbya candida - pygmy poppy, white pygmy poppywestern Mojave Desert of Southern California.

References

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  • Christopher Grey-Wilson, Poppies (Portland: Timber Press, 2000) {{ISBN|0-88192-503-9}} p. 229