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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Weakly twining vine sometimes scrambling up and over shrubs reaching several feet in length. Occasionally growing up to about 1-1/2 feet tall. Can be a stand-alone plant.
Identification notes: Herbaceous, stems trailing or climbing, many spreading and erect twining branches; small linear to lance-shaped leaves sometimes have lobes at the leaf bases; solitary flower on a long stalk. Pale pink or creamy white flowers.
Height:
To 18 inches
Habitat Description: Found on dry soils, on slopes among oaks and and in chaparral.
Plant Communities:
Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 3500 - 5000 feet
Color:
Pale pink or white to cream
Shape:
Regular not in clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Mar - Oct
Description:
Solitary flowers on a long flower stalk up to 8 inches in length; flower bloom is 4 to 5 inches wide often with lavender veins; sepals narrow; stamens glandular, hairy on the lower third, flowers borne in 1 to few-flowered clusters.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
No
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Alternate, narrow triangular shape like that of a spearhead, 3/4 to 3 inches long, 1/16 to 1/4 inch wide; spreading basal lobes 3/4 to 3 inches long; blades borne on slender stalks 1/16 to 1//8 inch long.
Fruit Color: Tan, dark brown
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: 4-celled, surrounded by enlarged sepals and sometimes by bracts; oval; tan.
Seed Notes: 1 to 4, without hairs, dark brown, smooth or netted, 1/8 inch long.
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