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 Leaves Desert Botanical Gardens Herbarium Collection, Usage rights: Attribution-Non-Commercial(CC BY-NC) |  Plant Frankie Coburn @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Stems pale pink or white, branched or not, herbage with minutely barbed hairs; flowers conspicuous and showy, white to pale yellow with orange veins.
Identification notes: Stems pale pink or white, branched or not, herbage with minutely barbed hairs; thick lance-like leaves with irregularly toothed margins; flowers white to pale yellow with semi-transparent petals, with conspicuous orange veins, especially near the throat.
Height:
To 14 inches
Habitat Description: Dry, sandy soils, in washes, alluvial fans, steep slopes, and creosote-bush scrub communities.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub,
Elevation: Below 3000 feet
Color:
White to pale yellow
Shape:
Regular in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Jan - May
Description:
Solitary or loose clustered, conspicuous, showy, white to pale yellow, orange veins, petals rounded, tips pointed; sepals lance-like to triangular, stamen filaments broadened towards tips, 2-lobed; ovaries cylindric, styles thread-like, stigmas 3-lobed.
Leaf Color:
Green to gray-green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Toothed
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
Y
Hairs:
Stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Lance-like to rounded, to 6 inches long, with irregularly toothed margins, basal leaves stemmed, usually in rosettes, stem leaves not stemmed, becoming smaller up the stem; upper leaves clasping.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Erect, cylindric.
Seed Notes: Seeds 1 to many, compressed, middle transverse-ridge, prominent, pointed terminal projection, ashy-white.
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