Thurber skyrocket

Description

PLANT: Short-lived perennial, 35-100 cm tall, simple to branched at base; stems often woody at base, short glandular above, short pilose below.-LEAVES: subglabrous to sparsely glandular, deeply lobed.-INFLORESCENCE: one-sided, with subsessile to short-pedicelled flowers on lateral branches.-FLOWER: calyx 6-10 mm long, short-glandular pubescent, the lobes attenuate; corolla lavender to bluish purple, the tube 35-50 mm long, the throat 4-6 mm wide, the lobes ovate to obovate, acuminate to apiculate; stamens inserted unequally on the tube; filaments unequal; anthers exserted; stigma slightly exserted.-CAPSULE: 8-10 mm long; seeds 5-9 per locule. 2n=14.-NOTES: Sandy to rocky soils, desert shrublands, woodlands, coniferous forest; Cochise, Pima, Santa Cruz cos.; 1220-2440 m (4000-8000 ft); Aug-Oct; AZ to TX, n Mex.-REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.