Boerhavia triquetra

Boerhavia triquetra, with the common names creeping sticky stem, slender spiderling, spiderling, is an annual desert plant in the four o'clock family (Nyctaginaceae).

Boerhavia triquetra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Genus: Boerhavia
Species:
B. triquetra
Binomial name
Boerhavia triquetra
S.Watson

It is native to California and Arizona, in habitats of the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert.

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