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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Delicate annual, erect or spreading, simple or often branched from base, with slender green or purple stems, 2 to 12 inches tall; internodes of all stems 1 to 5 times as long as leaves; finely glandular-hairy or smooth.
Identification notes: Delicate annual, rarely mat-forming, stems erect to spreading; leaves opposite, thread-like; flower stems can be glandular; flowers 5-petaled in few-flowered loose rounded clusters; sepals 1 to 3 veined, rounded at the tip, half the length of the petals.
Height:
2 to 12 inches
Habitat Description: Found in upper desert areas often in oak and pinyon-juniper communities, rocky and sandy slopes, flats, sandy soil in chaparral, also found on serpentine soils.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 330 - 5900 feet
Color:
White
Shape:
Regular in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Mar - Jun
Description:
Flowers at end of main stem or lateral branches, on thread-like stalks 1/4 to 1-3/4 inches long; 5 white petals with yellow center, streaked with prominent reddish midrib and lateral veins; 5 sepals, green with purple tips, 1/8 inch long.
Leaf Color:
Green or purple
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Stems multi-branched from base, green or purple; leaves opposite, narrow, tapering to point, bases slightly wider, curling or coiling with age, evenly spaced on stem.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Round capsule on stipe (stalk), 1/4 inch high, longer than sepals.
Seed Notes: Seeds reddish-brown, winged, 1/16 inch broad, smooth.
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