Duration: Annual

Nativity: Native

Lifeform: Forb/Herb

General: Simple to much branched plants 10-50 cm tall, heavy-scented, stipitate-glandular puberulence throughout.

Leaves: Oblong, 5-20 mm broad, 3-8 cm long, pinnatifid with narrowly deltoid to oblong, entire or dentate lobes, decurrent at base to short winged, clasping petiole.

Flowers: Cymes several to many, pedicels filiform, 6-15 mm long or longer in fruit, recurved, villous and stipitate-glandular; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 6-10 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, corolla 8-12 mm long, 5-10 mm wide, orbicular lobes 1-2 mm long, sparsely puberulent along and below midvein of each lobe; yellow.

Fruits: Capsule 8-10 mm long, thin-walled, sparsely villous and glandular.

Ecology: Found on gravelly or rocky soil on slopes, along streams, usually under bushes below 4,000 ft (1219 m); flowers March-May.

Notes: Often found in burned areas; makes whispering sound with persistent dry corollas.

Ethnobotany: No known uses.

Etymology: Emmenanthe is from the Greek emmeno, to bide and anthose flower, refers to the blossom not falling as it fades, while penduliflora means pendant flower.

Synonyms: None

Editor: SBuckley, 2010