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 Leaves and fruit Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Fruit Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial Similar Species: Hoffmannseggia glauca
General Desc:
Small, low perennial, with thick woody taproot, finely hairy, glandless throughout; stems several to many, ascending to spreading; bipinnate leaves with long petioles and tiny leaflets; bright yellow 5-petaled flowers; curved, flattened seed pods.
Identification notes: Small, low perennial, with a thick woody root and basal stem; twice pinnate leaves; long leaf stems and tiny leaflets; bright yellow 5-petaled flowers; strongly curved and flattened seed pods; finely pubescent herbage without glands.
Height:
4 to 8 inches
Habitat Description: Found in rocky soils.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 3000 - 5000 feet
Color:
Yellow
Shape:
Regular not in clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
May - Sep
Description:
Yellow (sometimes with red inclusions), in few-flowered erect to ascending racemes that surpass the leaves; flowers not quite radially symmetrical; 5 sepals, linear-oblong, 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, hairy; 5 petals, 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, short-clawed.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Round or oval
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Bipinnately compound, 3/4 to 2-1/2 inches long; each leaf has 7 to 11 primary branches, each branch has 4 to 10 pairs of broadly oblong leaflets, <1/4 inch long, minutely and sparsely hairy or without hairs.
Fruit Color: Green
Fruit Type: Pod
Fruit Notes: Pods flattened, oblong, and strongly falcate (hooked at the end), often forming a semicircle, 1/4 inch wide and 3/4 to 1-1/2 inches long, minutely hairy with few scattered sessile glands; containing several seeds.
Seed Notes: Each pod has several seeds.
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