The flowers are tiny, tubular, pale blue or white, and have 5 rounded lobes. The flowers are followed by small nutlets with hook-tipped spines. While the small flowers are easy to overlook, the spiny dried nutlets are not, as they will stick to clothing or animal fur. If you walk through a patch of these plants, expect to pick hundreds of prickly nutlets out of your socks. The leaves are green, hairy, alternate, and linear, lanceolate, or spatulate in shape. The stems are hairy and upright.

Santa Catalina Mountains.
Sabino Canyon Recreation Area
Location: Esperero Trail 0.3mi from Visitor Center.
3/2/16

Notes: Sabino Canyon Cholla Wash at Bear Canyon Trail 3/8/16, 2/14/19

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