Duration: Annual

Nativity: Native

Lifeform: Forb/Herb

General: Herbaceous annuals to biennials, stems erect to 70 cm tall, with milky juice.

Leaves: Alternate, simple, mostly cauline, broad, often clasping at the base, the margins sharply serrate, blades without stipules.

Flowers: Corollas showy purple, strongly bilabiate, perfect, 10 mm long or more, sympetalous, silt in the sides and down the dorsal side nearly to the base, filament tube 1.5-2.3 mm long, the anthers also united into a tube, 3 of them longer than the other 2, densely white-tufted at the tip, style solitary, inflorescences a single terminal raceme, occasionally with subordinate lateral inflorescences, flowers inverted in anthesis, the pedicel twisted.

Fruits: Capsule. Seeds minute, numerous.

Ecology: Found in moist areas, meadows and swales, from 5,000-6,000 ft (1524-1829 m); flowering August-November.

Distribution: Texas to Arizona; Mexico.

Notes: Look for this species in the Chiricahua, Huachuca, Patagonia, and potentially Baboquivari mountains.

Synonyms: Dortmannia fenestralis, Rapuntium fenestrale

Editor: LCrumbacher2012