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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Perennial herb or sub-shrub with trailing branches, grows from a woody root and produces multi-branched stems. Stems are covered with fine star-shaped hairs.
Identification notes: Petals 1/8 to 1/4 inches, orange to pink to red; fruit segments generally 5, longer than the calyx; stems trailing with tips ascending.
Height:
4 to 24 inches
Habitat Description: Dry plains and rocky arid slopes.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 2500 - 5500 feet
Color:
Yellow to orange to pink to red
Shape:
Regular not in clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Apr - Oct
Description:
The small flowers emerge singly from the leaf axils and have 5 fan-shaped or rounded petals, a hairless staminal (male) column, yellow-orange anthers and 5 green, point-tipped sepals that become reflexed (bent backwards) as the fruit develops.
Leaf Color:
Grayish-green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Triangular
Leaf Margin:
Toothed
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
The leaves are up to 2 inches long, alternate, heart-shaped, coarsely toothed and finely covered with star-shaped hairs. The stems are slender, branched, hairy and erect or trailing.
Fruit Color: Brown
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: The flowers are followed by fuzzy, rounded capsules with 5 or rarely 6 beaked segments.
Seed Notes: Seeds are light brown, hairy and heart shaped.
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