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Flowers and leaves Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | Flowers Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
Origin: Native
General Description: Semi-evergreen. Slender-stemmed aromatic shrub distinguished by its grayish-green and opposite leaves with round-toothed margins, white tangled hairs on the lower leaf surface, and strong veins above, as well as by the terminal, densely-hairy spikes of flowers.
Identification notes: Aromatic shrub diffusely branched; small grayish-green opposite and round toothed leaves; small flowers in slender, elongated spikes in axillary spikes.
Height: 4 to 6 feet Width: 4 to 6 feet
Habitat Description: Found on rocky slopes and in ravines, often on limestone.
Plant Communities: Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 1500 - 6000 feet
Color: White Shape: Irregular in elongated clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: Aug - Oct
Description: Tiny flowers less than 1/10 inch long, covered with downy hairs. 4 to 5 lobes per flower, rounded, upper 2 lobes are larger. Flowers are borne on branched elongated clusters that are 1 to 2 inches long.
Leaf Color: Green to gray Type: Simple Shape: Round or oval Margin: Toothed Attachment: Opposite Hairs: Bottom of leaves
Description: Leaves are often crowded, rounded to oval, 1/10 to 6/10 inch long, lower surface of leaf is densely hairy.
Color: Brown Type: Nut or nut-like Description: 2 nutlets per flower, tiny, much less than 1/16 inch in size.
Bark Color: Brown to light brown Bark Texture (Mature): Shreddy or peeling Bark and Branch Description: Many branches, twigs brown, angles white, stems are yellow and along with the branches densely hairy. Bark is thin, membranous, peeling in strips at maturity.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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