Palisades Trail 5/28/16 Coral Bells Flower Coral Bells Flower Coral Bells Stem Palisades Trail 5/28/16 Coral Bells Stem Coral Bells Leaf Coral Bells Plant Oracle Ridge Trail 7/30/15 Coral Bells Plant Oracle Ridge Trail Micrograph on Black Paper with Image Stacking Coral Bells Micrograph


Wildflowers of Southern Arizona


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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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