Duration: Perennial

Nativity: Native

Lifeform: Subshrub

General: Herbaceous perennials, to 40 cm tall, stems very low and woody, decumbent or ascending, branching, herbage more or less canescent or glabrous, plants leafy.

Leaves: Alternate or basal, linear to lanceolate, 1-5 cm long, obtuse or acute at the tip, margins unevenly denticulate, leaves crowding, ascending, the larger leaves spreading, blades subsessile or on very short petioles. Fascicles of small leaves present in the main leaf axils.

Flowers: Yellow, aging pink, petals 4, 8-25 mm long, rounded at the tips, sepals 4, 10-15 mm long, linear or nearly so, reflexed when in flower and antithesis, the free tips of the calyx lobes 3-12 mm long, stamens 8, stigmas shallowly 4-lobed, petals and calyx arising from a long hypanthium tube 2-6 cm long, flowers borne solitary in the upper leaf axils.

Fruits: Capsule 16-20 mm long, straight, curved, or coiled with 4 cells. Seeds numerous, naked.

Ecology: Found in rocky areas and grassy meadows, from 5,000-9,000 ft (1524-2743 m); flowering June-September.

Distribution: Arizona, New Mexico; Mexico.

Notes: The fascicles of small leaves present in the main leaf axils are a good identifying characteristic for this species when not in flower.

Ethnobotany: Unknown

Etymology: Unknown

Synonyms: Calylophus toumeyi

Editor: LCrumbacher 2011