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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Plant forms dense clusters of pink to blue or white flowers; the upper portion of the stem branches several times into short spikes; each segment contains a dozen or more blooms; flowers emit a bad scent.
Identification notes: Few, erect stems; openly branched above base; surfaces covered with short, stiff, glandular hairs; ovate to round leaves; lower blades compound; upper blades lobed to compound; 1-sided, curving or coiling flower head; capsule fruit.
Height:
6 to 20 inches
Habitat Description: Found in dry, sandy or gravelly washes, slopes, and canyons.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands
Elevation: 1000 - 3500 feet
Color:
Pink to blue or white
Shape:
Bell-shaped in elongated clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Mar - May
Description:
Bell-shaped flowers; five 1/4 to 1/2 inch lobes around a center of 5 stamens topped by white anthers; 1-sided, coiled, and densely grouped on thread-like stalks with long-hairy surfaces; not glandular.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Round or oval
Leaf Margin:
Lobed
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Leaves and stems glandular, covered in short brownish hairs; oval to round, 3/4 to 4-3/4 inches in diameter; lower blades compound; 3 to 7 rounded or toothed leaflets; upper blades lobed to compound; 3 rounded segments; blades smaller going up stem.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Rounded to oval, 1/8 inch long; soft, hairy surfaces.
Seed Notes: Generally 4 seeds, each about 1/8 inch long; lower surfaces pitted; upper surfaces have central ridge separating 2 longitudinal grooves.
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