Duration: Perennial
Nativity: Native
Lifeform: Subshrub
General: Herbaceous perennials, stems to 30 cm long, ascending, sometimes reddish or woody at the base, herbage loosely pubescent to glabrate.
Leaves: Alternate, deltoid to oblong-ovate with rounded to cordate bases and serrulate margins, surfaces dark green to reddish.
Flowers: Yellow to reddish-orange or peach, small, pendelous, with 5 petals, the corollas 6-8 mm long, calyxes 5-cleft with lanceolate lobes, the calyx about half the length of the corolla and the calyx lobes longer than the tube, the surfaces with short, stiff hairs, anthers to 2.5 mm long, styles 5, sparsely hispidulous, flowers solitary, borne axillary and terminal at stem tips.
Fruits: Ovoid capsules with 5 ridges and stout teeth along the edges of the valves, the teeth 1-2 mm long, with 3-5 stellately arranged, horizontal or slightly recurved stout hairs.
Ecology: Found on dry rocky slopes, hillsides, alluvial fans, and canyon bottoms, 2,500-3,000 ft (762-914 m); flowering February-June and September.
Distribution: Arizona; Mexico.
Notes: This species has yellow to peach-colored flowers, and dark green to reddish stems and leaves with pubescent to glabrate surfaces. Ts is the only species of this genus to occur in Arizona, look for it in the Santa Catalina and Tucson mountains in Pima county. The Arizona Game and Fish Department note good identifiers for this species are the 5 distinct styles on the ovary, this trait in contrast to Waltheria and Ayenia, which have only one, along with the yellow flowers which are solitary and pendulous.
Ethnobotany: Unknown.
Etymology: The meaning of hermannia is unknown, and pauciflora means few-flowered.
Editor: LCrumbacher2012
