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Plant - winter Granite Lake Basin
Doug McMillan | Plant - summer Granite Lake Basin
Marv Mazur | Leaves Highlands Center for Natural History
Marv Mazur | Flowers Watson Woods
Sue Smith | Seeds Granite Mtn - Tr 308
Sue Smith | Bark NW of Mingus Mtn - Perkinsville Rd
Charlie Johnson | |
Origin: Native Similar Species: Cowania mexicana
General Description: Deciduous. A spreading and much-branched shrub which often forms thickets in flats and washes. The lobed leaves are thin. Showy white flowers are followed by many fruits with long pink plumes.
Identification notes: Low much-branched shrub, fleshy bark, slender hairy branches. Leaves divided into 3 to 7 lobes, hairy on top, scaly below. Flowers solitary or few per branch, large white and showy with 5 petals. Fruits oblong, hairy, tipped by pinkish feathery plumes.
Height: 6 feet Width: 5 feet
Habitat Description: Found on gravelly flats, sediment and dry rocky slopes.
Plant Communities: Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Riparian
Elevation: 3500 - 8000 feet
Color: White, pinkish Shape: Regular in clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: Apr - Oct
Description: Flowers are white to pinkish, 5 petaled and yellow centered, up to 2 inches wide. Flowers are showy, usually unisexual, in loose clusters of 1 to 3 at the end of elongate, nearly leafless stalks.
Leaf Color: Dark green, reddish-white Type: Simple Shape: Pinnatifid Margin: Lobed Attachment: Alternate Hairs: Top of leaves
Description: Leaves are smooth or hairy on top and scaly beneath; up to 3/4 inch long. Usually winter-deciduous, pinnately divided into 3 to 7 narrowly oblong lobes; dark green above, woolly beneath.
Color: White to pinkish Type: Achene Description: Ovoid achene fruits with numerous 1 inch long feathery pinkish plumes persist on the plant in the fall.
Bark Color: Gray to brown Bark Texture (Mature): Shreddy or peeling Bark and Branch Description: Numerous branches at the base. Light gray-brown, irregularly ridged and furrowed, a bit shreddy.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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