Sonoran Desert Naturalist >>> Field Guide >>> Sonoran Desert Flora >>> Polemoniaceae
Mostly annual herbs. Showy flowers usu. with five lobes on a long tubular flower. Most species in the Sonoran Desert are petite and thin-stemmed. Several species, just three shown here (for now ... -:).
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Lesser Yellowthroat Gilia |
Gilia flavocincta |
Evening Snow |
Linanthus dichotomus |
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Spring annual with tall spindly flower stalks supporting bright pink to lavender flowers. Detailed Description |
Delicate spring annual with bright white, five petaled flowers. Leaves oppositie. Detailed Description |
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Woolly Desertstar |
Eriastrum eremicum |
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Five-pointed blue flowers in clusters subetended by woolly bracts. Spring annual. Leaves narrowly disected on upright plant. Detailed Description |
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Michael J. Plagens, 1999-07
