Frostweed

Description

2 to 10 stalked flowers at the top of the plant, only 1 or 2 open at a time. Flowers are - to 1 inch across, with 5 yellow petals and 10 or more orange-tipped stamens fanning out around a small center column, the stamens often clustered together on one side. Behind the flower are 5 red-tinged sepals, the inner 3 broadly triangular, the outer 2 very narrow and usually about as long as the inner. Sepals are covered in short star-shaped hairs.Later in the season, tight clusters of petal-less, self-pollinating (cleistogamous) flowers develop in the axils and tips of the numerous branches.