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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Slightly hairy, erect, glandular annual, often with numerous stems branching from the base. Oval leaves often have a lobed to wavy margin. Flower stalk is a dense 1-sided curving cluster of white to light purple bell-shaped flowers with yellow throats.
Identification notes: Annual, erect, glandular, minutely hairy throughout, often much branched from the base, stems slender and weak; leaves oval, not fleshy; flowers bell-shaped, white to light purple on <1/8 inch long stalks; style cleft at tip <1/3 of its length; seeds >50.
Height:
To nearly 8 inches
Habitat Description: Deep sandy washes (areas with sparse vegetation having water for brief periods of time), drying streambanks, slopes.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian
Elevation: 1300 - 7600 feet
Color:
White to light purple
Shape:
Bell-shaped in elongated clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Mar - Jun
Description:
Flower stalk has many narrow bell-shaped flowers with short stems that form a 1-sided coiled cluster. Each flower is about 1/4 inch long with 5 oval white to light purple petals and a tubular yellow throat. Below the flower are hairy leaf-like sepals.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Round or oval
Leaf Margin:
Lobed
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Minutely hairy. Stems are usually branched from the base and often reddish. Leaves are oblong-oval to broadly egg-shaped, 1/2 to 1 inch long with margins that are often lobed to wavy but may be smooth or pointy. Leaves are gradually reduced up the stem.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Fruit is an oblong to egg-shaped capsule, 1/8 to 1/4 inch long, lightly covered with coarse stiff hairs and dotted with glands.
Seed Notes: Seeds are numerous (at times up to 80 are produced), egg-shaped or nearly round, dark brown, less than 1/16 inch long with rough indentations on their surface (pitted).
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