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 Leaves Kirsten Phillips @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial) |  Plant Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
A subshrub that grows close to the ground often forming extensive mats. Leaves are short and prickly in appearance but still quite soft and flexible in texture; flowers mostly separate, not overlapping towards the base, and are centered on a small tube.
Identification notes: Stems mostly short, branched, less than 4 inches long, lower habit than other phloxes, compact grayish-green appearance; leaves thin, soft; hairs fine; pinkish-purple to pink to white flowers; membrane between sepals keeled; stems simple, 1 to 5 flowers.
Height:
To 4 inches
Habitat Description: Forests and woodland mountain habitat, scrub, and open areas.
Plant Communities:
Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 3900 - 8500 feet
Color:
White or pink or pinkish-purple
Shape:
Regular not in clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Mar - Jun
Description:
Solitary; small stalk; sepals 1/2 inch long; membranes weakly ridged to distended; tube 1/2 to 3/4 inch long; lobes 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, oval, rounded at the tips; yellow-tipped stamens inserted on upper tube; stigmas located below most of stamens.
Leaf Color:
Grayish-green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Stems 2-1/2 to 4 inches long; lower stalks obscured by leaves; leaves elongated, firm, thick, ending in a short sharp point; without hairs to sparse covering of white hairs, mostly on the upper surfaces; 1/2 to 3/4 inch long, 1/16 inch wide.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: 3 segments; separating from a single column.
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