Annual herb to 1 m tall Stem: erect, one to several. Leaves: many, 1.5 - 3.5 cm long, lance-linear, three-veined. Flowers: borne on a loose terminal inflorescence, having five sepals 7 - 9 mm long with a pointed tip and five blue petals 10 - 15 mm long. The inner sepals are toothed and minutely hairy along the dry papery margin. Fruit: a capsule, 6 - 10 mm long, nearly spherical and abruptly short-beaked, incompletely splitting into ten segments with pointed tips. Misc: Non-native. Flowering late May to mid October.

Rincon Mountain Foothills
Location: Arizona Trail adjacent to Gabe Zimmerman trail head.
4/2/16

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