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Plant - summer Little Thumb Butte
Sue Smith | Plant - summer Yeager Canyon
Sue Smith | Leaves Yeager Canyon
Sue Smith | Flowers Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | Seeds Granite Mtn - Tr 40
Sue Smith | Bark Granite Mtn - Tr 261
Marv Mazur | |
Origin: Native
General Description: Semi-evergreen. Hardwood shrub with dense erect growth, rarely tree-like, smooth, pale gray to reddish-gray bark, older branches flecked with scales, younger twigs smooth to sparsely hairy. Mature fruits with white, feathery, twisted styles that glow in back lighting.
Identification notes: Stems are branched and woody; leaves are grayish-green but paler green beneath, toothed on the upper margins and deeply veined, obovate or wider at tips than at attachment; small petal-less flowers, green sepals form a tube with pinkish flared lobes.
Height: 10 feet Width: 4 to 6 feet
Habitat Description: Found on dry slopes and along washes, often in chaparral or pinyon-juniper woodlands.
Plant Communities: Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian
Elevation: 3000 - 8000 feet
Color: Green to pinkish Shape: Regular, not in clusters
Tubular: Y Flowering Period: Mar - Nov
Description: Flowers solitary or in axillary clusters of 2 to 3, on short stems, 5 sepals, no petals; the floral tube flared with 20 or more extruded stamens and 1 pistil. The styles of the pistils grow up to 4 inches at maturity and are feathery and twisted.
Leaf Color: Dark green, grayish-green Type: Simple Shape: Round or oval Margin: Toothed Attachment: Alternate Hairs: N
Description: Small, 1 inch long and 1/2 inch wide, wedge-shaped and toothed at upper margins, rounded apically, impressed veins above, dark green on top and somewhat hairy and grayish-green beneath. Winter-deciduous.
Color: Whitish Type: Achene Description: Small slender achene with long, feathery, spirally twisted tail (up to 4 inches).
Bark Color: Gray, reddish-brown Bark Texture (Mature): Smooth Bark and Branch Description: Twigs are slender, hairy, reddish-brown and smooth turning gray with age.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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