Plant: annual herb; to 60 cm tall. Leaves: to 15 cm long, sessile, elliptic to lanceolate; margin toothed to pectinately lobed. BRACTS ovate to lanceolate or triangular, green, mostly not on ovary; margins few-toothed to entire. INFLORESCENCE: cymose. Flowers: sessile; petals yellow, 8-20 mm long, (3-)5-10 mm wide; staminodia 0; stamens ca. 30-50, all with linear filaments; style 5-10 mm long. Fruit: capsules clavate, long-tapering to base; base not woody; body 20-38 mm long, S-shaped or arching to 180 degrees. SEEDS pendulous, not winged, those in upper half of capsule grain-like, several-faceted, irregular in cross-section, the angles sharp; testa cells with straight adjoining walls, the surface wall pointed-papillate. Misc: Deserts to low chaparral; 200-1300 (-1600) m (600-4200 (-5300) ft); Jan-Jun. Notes: capsules are s-shaped, arching 180 degrees.Leaves are pectinately toothed and surface is rough pubescent.

Red collar in neck of flower.

Santa Catalina Mountains
Sabino Canyon Recreation Area
Location: Rattlesnake Canyon on path at edge of wash.
3/8/17

Notes: Sabino Canyon Recreation Area 3/15/16.
Location: Edge of tram road about 2 miles from Visitor Center. Location subsequently bladed.
Location: Edge of wash in Breakfast Canyon 3/12/17.

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