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 Leaves Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Bud & leaves Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Multiple stemmed plants crowded with narrow leaves forming mounds covered with bright yellow flowers; flower buds have purple stripes and are sometimes predominantly purple.
Identification notes: Low, tufted perennial. Stem tips ascending, few to many; stems and leaves grayish with dense velvety soft hairs. Flowers bloom at night, bright lemon yellow, 4, large, fringed petals, disc-shaped stigmas, enlarged tube below petals 1 to 2 inches long.
Height:
3 to 12 inches
Habitat Description: Dry, open, rocky slopes and flats.
Plant Communities:
Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 3500 - 7500 feet
Color:
Yellow fading to pink or purplish
Shape:
Regular not in clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
May - Sep
Description:
Solitary flowers, 1 to 2 inches wide; floral tubes 1 to 2-1/2 inches long; 4 sepals, often with purple marginal stripes; 4 yellow, crinkled petals 1/2 to 1 inch long, fading to pink or purplish; 8 stamens; stigma disc-shaped, 4-lobed.
Leaf Color:
Grayish-green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Gray, hairy stems crowded with narrow leaves that attach alternately. Leaves narrow to narrowly lanced, 1/4 to 2 inches long, less than 1/4 inch wide, growing against the stem; hairy with smooth but wavy margins.
Fruit Color: Brown
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Narrow and cylindrical, 1/2 to 1 inch long, 4-celled.
Seed Notes: Many small brown seeds.
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