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Plant - summer Granite Mtn - Tr 308
Sue Smith | Leaves Bradshaw Mtns - Tr 52
Sue Smith | Flowers Pinyon Oaks Subdivision
Sue Smith | Fruit Granite Mtn - Tr 308
Sue Smith | Flowers Pioneer Park
Sue Smith | Seeds Little Thumb Butte
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Origin: Native Similar Species: Fallugia paradoxa, Purshia tridentata
General Description: Evergreen. An evergreen, densely branched shrub or small tree with numerous branches and showy fragrant white to yellowish-white flowers; may reach 25 feet on favorable sites.
Identification notes: A shreddy barked shrub. Leaves alternate, simple, deeply cleft into 3 lobes, glandular, dark green above, white hairs beneath; margins rolled under. Flowers fragrant, solitary on lateral branches. Achene has a feathery persistent style.
Height: To 25 feet Width: 10 feet
Habitat Description: Found on dry rocky slopes, plateaus in grasslands, sagebrush and pinyon-juniper woodlands, and ponderosa pine forests.
Plant Communities: Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 3000 - 8000 feet
Color: White to yellowish-white Shape: Regular, not in clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: Apr - Sep
Description: Flowers are very fragrant and about 1 inch in diameter with 5 rounded white petals, 5 smaller, pointed green sepals and a bushy cluster of numerous yellow stamens topped by yellow anthers.
Leaf Color: Dark green Type: Simple Shape: Triangular Margin: Lobed Attachment: Alternate Hairs: Bottom of leaves
Description: Leaves are up to 1 inch long, dark green above with white woolly hairs beneath, leathery, glandular-dotted, wedge-shaped, and divided into 3 to 5 narrow lobes, with edges rolled under.
Color: Brown to whitish Type: Feathery Description: Fruit is a hairy 1/4 inch long achene, with 4 to 10 seeds; each seed is attached to a 2-inch long silvery, feathery plume-like tail.
Bark Color: Reddish-brown, gray Bark Texture (Mature): Shreddy or peeling Bark and Branch Description: Twigs reddish-brown, glandular. Bark reddish-brown to gray, shreddy.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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