Sandpaper plant
Botanical name: Petalonyx
Sandpaper plant
Botanical name: Petalonyx
Description
Sandpaper plant is a small genus of flowering plants native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. They are subshrubs that get their common name from their rough foliage, which is covered in tiny, stiffly curved hairs. They bear racemes of claw-shaped flowers with long stamens extending well beyond the corolla, and unusual in that they emerge from outside the corolla. 
Species of Sandpaper plant
Sandpaper plant
It is a rounded or spreading, clumpy subshrub made up of many rough-haired stems approaching 1 m in maximum height. The stems are lined with clasping leaves varying in shape from lance-shaped to triangular to oval and sometimes toothed. The inflorescence at the end of the stem is a small, crowded raceme of several flowers. The white flower appears tubular, its petals fused near the spreading tips but open lower, the stamens emerging from outside the corolla.
Shiny sandpaper plant
The leaves are oval, pointed, usually toothed or serrated, and up to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence at the end of the stem is a crowded raceme of many flowers. The flower appears tubular, its white petals fused near the spreading tips but open lower, the long stamens extending well beyond the corolla, and unusual in that they emerge from outside the corolla.
Scientific Classification
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