UT, Colorado Plateau, 20060422
Robber's Roost, flowers.

Amelanchier utahensis

Sclerocactus whipplei
Lupinus argenteus? [voucher]
| | GEN | | peren, large bushy plant, in wash |
| | LF | | | lflt | | 7, silvery, v folded, 40x4+0mm, sp strig ab, v silvery strig bel, acute, oblance-lin | petiole 40mm, no stips? |
| | INFL | | v tall erect rac, fls alt, fls spread, internodes 7-20mm, pedicel 4mm, peduncle 90mm or so, v silvery strig, no bracts |
| | SEP | | 8x3mm or so, lower lip 7mm, upper lips 5-6mm w 1mm notch between, v strig, asym base |
| | BAN | | 12mm long, 10x8mm, 30deg, marg folded back, marg lt purp, center white w fine dk lines hidden at base, strig near middle on back |
| | KEEL | | 12mm, incl, sharp acute, white w dp red-purp tip, cil ab near tip |

| | GEN | | viny bushy peren, smells nice |
| | ST | | angled, LF even-pin, tendril at tip| lflt | | 10+, ellip, erect, 40x7+0mm, flat, v sp strig ab and bel | tendril coiled and sometimes forked once or twice, internode about 10mm, subsess |
| | INFL | | short ~d rac, 6 or so fls, pedicel 1-2mm, fls pend, peduncle 80mm or more |
| | BAN | | 20mm long, 16x20mm, 90deg, marg flat, vivid purple, glab |
| | WING | | 19mm long, lter purp, glab |
| | KEEL | | 15mm long, incl in wings, white, sharp pt, glab |
| | STYLE | | 1, flat tip puber on top, sl > stam, incl in keel |
Genus definite (see bold stuff), but neither
JM nor
H&C seem to have this species.
| | LF | | opp, lance, rounded-obtuse, trunc to sl cord, 55x20+0mm, min puber to gland both sides? (soft and covered d with sand), sl wavy entire marg |
| | INFL | | tall term rac, pedicel to 10mm, fl spread to descend |
| | SEP | | 5x5mm, lobes 2x2mm delt, same hair as leaf |
| | PET | | bright red, 30mm long, tube 23x7mm, lobes 7x4mm, nearly radially sym, all glab to glauc inside |
| | STAM | | 4 + 1 ster, 2 longer 2 shorter but otherwise identicalster anth missing or min and < fert |
| | ANTH | | cream, U-shaped, opening by lat slits near tips, glab |
| | STYLE | | 1, white, glab, sl > stam |
Taylor suggests this,
JM keys directly to it w/o trouble and even suggests
var. undosus, but I'm not willing to go that far.
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