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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Erect, branching, hairy, glandular annual with small purple flowers borne in crowded, coiled elongated flower stalks.
Identification notes: Few stemmed annual with basal pinnately lobed, glandular leaves, few stem leaves; narrow inflorescence with little branching; flowers numerous, up to 1/4 inch wide and crowded, stamens exceed corolla, petals are rounded, styles hairy at their base.
Height:
4 to 12 inches
Habitat Description: Rocky, gravelly soil, slopes, floodplains.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 3200 - 6400 feet
Color:
Bluish-purple to reddish-purple
Shape:
Regular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Apr - May
Description:
Small purple flowers borne in crowded, coiled racemes (flowers attached by short stalks along a central stem).
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Pinnatifid
Leaf Margin:
Lobed
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Both basal and stem leaves; stem leaves alternate. Most leaves simple and deeply pinnately lobed; largest leaves compound.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Capsule less than 1/4 inch long.
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