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Plant - summer Fair Oaks Rd
Sue Smith | Plant - summer Paulden area
Sue Smith | Leaves Fair Oaks Rd
Sue Smith | Flowers Fair Oaks Rd
Sue Smith | Plant - fall Coconino NF Windmill Allotment Duff Flat
John Kava | Plant - summer Coconino NF Windmill Allotment Duff Flat
John Kava | |
Origin: Native
General Description: Evergreen. Low growing, long-lived subshrub, woody based with numerous annual branchlets. Fluffy seedheads cover plant to make it look like an exploded pillow. Widespread and conspicuous with its densely matted, soft, long white tangled hairs.
Identification notes: Woody based subshrub with numerous upright stems. Leaves alternate or clustered, linear or lance-shaped. Herbage densely covered with long white hairs. Flowers inconspicuous and imperfect, borne in stem axils or on terminal spikes.
Height: 2 feet Width: 1-1/2 feet
Habitat Description: Found on slopes and plains, sometimes in alkaline soils.
Plant Communities: Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 2000 - 7000 feet
Color: White Shape: Inconspicuous in clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: May - Oct
Description: Flowers in axillary clusters and terminal spike-like clusters, covered in long straight white hairs; lacking petals; male flowers deciduous. Flowers inconspicuous with no petals, clustered in the leaf axils; woolly and white with a green stripe.
Leaf Color: Blue-green Type: Simple Shape: Narrow Margin: Smooth Attachment: Alternate Hairs: Top and bottom of leaves
Description: Leaves alternate, clustered, linear to lance-like on short stalks; prominent mid-vein on underside of leaf, channeled on top; margins strongly revolute; leaves densely covered in silky or star-like hairs.
Color: White to pink Type: Feathery Description: Plumes of fluffy white seeds cover the female plants from September through December.
Bark Color: Gray-brown Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Numerous erect slender branches grow from a woody base. Twigs gray to reddish-brown, stout, ascending, and covered with dense
hairs. Trunk bark is gray-brown.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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