Palisades Trail 5/28/16
Palisades Trail 5/28/16
Oracle Ridge Trail 7/30/15
Micrograph on Black Paper with Image Stacking
Wildflowers of Southern Arizona
Coral Bells.
Heuchera sanguinea.
Saxifrage (Saxifragaceae) family.
The flowers are clustered near the tips of long, slender, leafless flower stalks. The individual flowers have 5 petals and are small, bell-shaped to urn-shaped, and glandular-hairy. The flowers are followed by small, beaked, egg-shaped seed capsules. The leaves have glandular-hairy petioles and are dark green, basal, rounded to heart-shaped, and palmately lobed with 5 to 7 main lobes. The plants are low, spreading, and stemless.
Santa Catalina Mountains.
Location: Perched on rock cliff alongside Butterfly Trail at 7551 ft;
32 25 41.636 N, 110 44 15.695 W.
5/17/15
Notes: Oracle Ridge Trail 7/30/15
Palisades Trail 5/28/16
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