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*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5145,5146,0,5150 1993 Jepson Manual Treatment: ssp. ''parviflora'']
*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5145,5146,0,5150 1993 Jepson Manual Treatment: ssp. ''parviflora'']
*[http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0801.htm Wayne Armstrong: Devil's Claws]
*[http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0801.htm Wayne Armstrong: Devil's Claws] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219140559/http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0801.htm |date=2008-02-19 }}
*[http://www.sibleynaturecenter.org/essays/moseying/exploringnature/080702_devilsclaw.html Behold the Devil's Claw, a Pleistocene anachronism]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080905135211/http://sibleynaturecenter.org/essays/moseying/exploringnature/080702_devilsclaw.html Behold the Devil's Claw, a Pleistocene anachronism]


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Proboscidea parviflora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Martyniaceae
Genus: Proboscidea
Species:
P. parviflora
Binomial name
Proboscidea parviflora
(Woot.) Woot. & Standl.

Proboscidea parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae known by the common names doubleclaw and red devil's-claw. It is native to the desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in sandy, dry, and disturbed habitat and blooms during the hot summer. This is an annual herb growing from a taproot and producing sprawling, spreading stems. The leaves have rounded, oval, or roughly triangular blades up to 15 centimetres (6 in) long which have smooth edges or faint lobes or teeth. The inflorescence is an array of several showy bell-shaped flowers with five lobes flaring several centimeters wide. The flower is white to pink or purple, sometimes with mottling or lines of spots in the throat, and often a purple blotch on the upper lip. A yellow nectar guide extends along the lower lip. The fruit is a large seed pod many centimeters long, a cylindrical body tapering into a very long, thin, curving tail. As the fruit dries the tail cracks open and splits into two hooked, claw-like halves. The young fruits and seeds were used for food and the dark-colored hardened dry fruits were used in basketry by local Native Americans.[1]

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