Canbya aurea

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| name = Yellow pygmy-poppy

| genus = Canbya

| species = aurea

| authority = S. Wats.

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Canbya aurea, common name yellow pygmy-poppy, is a plant species endemic to the relatively cool northern deserts of the western United States. It is known only from central and southeastern Oregon and northwestern Nevada, as well as one collection reported from Mono County, California. It grows on dry, sandy soil, usually with sagebrush (mostly Artemisia tridentata), at elevations of {{convert|900|-|1700|m}}.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233500309 Flora of North America v 3][http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=2396 Calflora, Canbya aurea]

Canbya aurea is a small herb rarely more than {{convert|2|cm}} tall, branching at or just above ground level. Leaves are fleshy, linear to oblong, untoothed and unlobed, up to {{convert|10|mm}} long. Flowers are bright yellow, up to 10 mm across.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8865379#page/471/mode/1up Watson, Sereno. 1886. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 21(2): 445.].Christopher Grey-Wilson. 2000 Poppies. Portland: Timber Press. {{ISBN|0-88192-503-9}}.Hitchcock, C. H., A.J. Cronquist, F. M. Ownbey & J. W. Thompson. 1984. Salicaceae to Saxifragaceae. Part II: 1–597. In C. L. Hitchcock Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.