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 Flower heads Grapevine CanyonSue Smith |  Flowers Grapevine CanyonSue Smith |  Leaves Grapevine CanyonSue Smith |  Plant - summer Grapevine CanyonSue Smith | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Low growing plant with erect to spreading stems, dark green, wavy edged leaves and pale green flowers. The rounded flower clusters are found along the plant's stem. It is one of the food plants for the queen butterfly caterpillars.
Identification notes: Several erect to spreading stems from a cluster of slender rhizomes. Leaves mostly opposite or whorled, seldom more than 1/2 inch wide, often less than 3 times as long as wide. Horn yellow, winglike, tapering to a slender, exserted point; hood stalked.
Height:
To 1-1/2 feet
Habitat Description: Washes, slopes, roadsides of deserts, grasslands, and open woodlands and at springs.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 1600 - 6500 feet
Color:
Pale green
Shape:
Regular in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
May - Jun
Description:
The pink-tinted pale green flowers are in rounded, terminal clusters. Each flower has 5 reflexed petals and 5 upright yellowish hoods. The flower hoods are slightly shorter than the petals and have only slightly protruding horns.
Leaf Color:
Dark green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Round or oval
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
The thick leaves are large, dark green, wavy-edged and oval to lance-shaped, opposite and stemmed.
Fruit Type: Pod
Fruit Notes: Seed pods are erect. Seed pods are on bent, curving downward or curving backward stems.
Seed Notes: Flat seeds have a tuft of silky hairs.
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