AZ, Sonoran Desert, 20060408
Tucson, Ventana Trail, two flowers.
Ventana trail to pockets and back. Both flowers from near mouth of canyon.
Verbena gooddingii
In wash.
| | LF | | 20x15+5mm, lobes 2mm wide, 2-3 pairs of lat lobes, tips acute, lter bel, v d long spreading soft bristly w some clear glands near tips of a few, midvein and midvein of lobes imp ab and raised bel, some lobes further lobed |
| | SEP | | 5, join, 10x1.5mm, joined by webbed membrane, teeth lin thread 1-2mm long, bristly |
| | PET | | 5, join, sl bilat, salverform, vivid magenta, tube 15x1mm, lobes 2.5x1.5mm or so (wilted a bit already)| tube | | opening v small, filled w white hairs |
hairy outside and sp so inside |
JM key, UA Herbarium list and web pix confirm.
Stephanomeria pauciflora pauciflora
At base of cliff in wash.
| | GEN | | tall spindly br'd herb |
| | INFL | | scattered in fews in axils |
| | PHYL | | 8x1mm and much shorter, relatively few, erect, glab, abruptly acute |
| | RAY | | 5, pinkish white| limb | | 4x4mm, strap, 5 toothed |
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| | PAP | | maybe as many as 20 v plumose equal white to tannish bristles |
JM key, UA Herbarium and web pix confirm.
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