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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Erect but weak-stemmed plant with lobed, sometimes compound leaves and small blue to lavender bell-shaped flowers in a coil-shaped inflorescence.
Identification notes: Weak stems, lobed leaves, few or no glandular hairs; corolla up to or slightly larger than 1/4 inch wide; calyx (sepals) with stiff or bristly hairs, lobes contracted; inflorescences curled, unfolding as flowers develop, stamens do not exceed petals.
Height:
6 to 19 inches
Habitat Description: Gravelly or rocky slopes, canyons, often under shrubs.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 2500 - 6000 feet
Color:
Bluish-purple to reddish-purple
Shape:
Regular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Mar - Jun
Description:
The inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme (convex flower cluster). The top flower blooms first. The flower is pale blue to lavender, less than 1/4 inch long, and surrounded by long, narrow linear sepals covered in hairs.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Pinnatifid
Leaf Margin:
Lobed
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Leaves elliptic to ovate, lower generally compound, upper lobed to compound.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Spheric, hairy capsule less than 1/4 inch long.
Seed Notes: Seeds pitted, oblong to spheric, brownish, usually 4 per capsule.
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