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 Plant Desert Botanical Gardens Herbarium Collection, Usage rights: Attribution-Non-Commercial(CC BY-NC) | | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual or perennial
General Desc:
Coarse, herbaceous annual to short-lived perennial, taprooted. Stems 4 to 8 from base, branched, densely hairy and sparsely glandular.
Identification notes: Decumbent then ascending, glandular, hairy herb; persistent leaves deeply toothed or incised with whitish veins from below and sharp points on the ends of many lobes, becoming reduced in size moving up the plant. Leaves folded, crumpled or corrugated.
Height:
4 to 16 inches
Habitat Description: Found in sandy or gravelly prairies, flats, ravines, hillsides, canyons, roadsides or disturbed areas.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 2000 - 7000 feet
Color:
Pink to light purple to pale blue
Shape:
Regular not in clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Mar - Sep
Description:
Spikes solitary and terminal, to 10 inches, flowers at alternate intervals; short, hairy bracts below the flowers are un-lobed, ovate to lance-shaped, 1/8 to 1/4 inch; sepals glandular and hairy; flowers have 5 lobes, 3 upper and 2 lower.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Palmate
Leaf Margin:
Toothed
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and opposite
Leaves Clasp:
Y
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
Y
Leaf Description:
Elliptic to pointed at the base, 1-1/2 inches long, 1 inch wide; widely spaced intervals on glandular and hairy stems; veins impressed on upper surface, prominent and whitish below, surfaces hairy; leaf stem winged, sometimes clasping.
Fruit Type: Nutlet
Fruit Notes: Nutlets cylindric, with 3 angles, about 1/16 inch long, separating at maturity.
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