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 Leaves Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant Gregory Gust @http://swbiodiversity.org. Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial) | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Low growing; stems grow upright or at an angle, branching a few times at the base; bright green basal leaves and the reddish stems covered with short hairs; funnel-shaped flowers in a small cluster at the top of the stems.
Identification notes: Few to several stems; leaves mostly near base, pinnatifid, smooth, toothed, or lobed margins; flowers in few flowered clusters, light purple, pink, blue, or rarely nearly white with yellow throats, stamen, style not protruding; seeds wrinkled all around.
Height:
2 to 12 inches
Habitat Description: Found in sandy or gravelly soils along washes and in arid flats, often beneath shrubs.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands
Elevation: 2000 - 5000 feet
Color:
Purple, blue, pink, white, yellow
Shape:
Bell-shaped in elongated clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Mar - Jun
Description:
Few branched or simple funnel-shaped flowers in small cluster at top of stems; 1/16 inch stalk; 5 rounded lobes 1/8 to 1/4 inch long; corolla 1/2 inch long and 1/2 to 3/4 inch wide; yellow throat; stamens to 1/2 inch; short hairs toward base.
Leaf Color:
Green, red
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Pinnatifid
Leaf Margin:
Toothed
Leaf Attachment:
Basal
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Leaves oblong to oblanceolate (having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base); 3/4 to 2-1/2 inches long, 3/4 inch wide; deeply lobed or compound; stems longer than leaves blades.
Fruit Color: Brown
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Oval to oblong, to 1/4 inch long; soft hairs toward base; indentations about 1/5 its length.
Seed Notes: About 12 seeds; 1/16 inch.
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