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 Leaves and plant Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium, Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial) | | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Grows prostrate to erect in form with mostly hairless or slightly hairy herbage. The leaves are made up of lance-shaped to oval leaflets. The flower head is a cluster of flowers that spread out or flex downward.
Identification notes: Annual, can be slightly hairy; stems trailing to erect; leaves on stems, palmately compound, 3 leaflets; flower clusters rounded, 3 to many-flowered, often turn to side; flowers pink, pinkish-purple; sepals form tubes, 10-veined, shortly bristle-tipped.
Height:
3 to 12 inches
Habitat Description: Open, disturbed, moist or dry places.
Plant Communities:
Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 2500 - 6000 feet
Color:
Pink, pinkish-purple
Shape:
Irregular in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Not determined
Description:
Clustered flower head 3/4 inch wide, 3 to many flowers, becoming bent backwards; 1/4 inch sepal whorl, hairless; flower lobes less than 1/16 inch at base, slightly bristle-tipped; corolla 1/4 to 1/2 inch.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Stems trailing to erect; leaves with stems, 3 leaflets, 1/4 to 3/4 inch, fan outward from end of stem; stipules (small leaf-like appendages) oval and tapered.
Fruit Type: Pod
Fruit Notes: Short, plump, 1/4 inch, indehiscent (not splitting open to release seed when ripe), but often breaking.
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