Purple Owl Clover Flower Purple Owl Clover Stem Purple Owl Clover Plant

Wildflowers of Southern Arizona


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Purple Owl Clover.
Castilleja exserta.
Broomrape (Orobanchaceae) family.

The bilateral, magenta flowers have a narrow, hairy, beak-like upper lip and a broader lower lip with 3 yellow-tipped pouches. The flowers are surrounded by magenta-colored bracts that are densely clustered along the flower spikes. The leaves intergrade with the bracts and like them have 5 to 9, slender, glandular-hairy, primary lobes.

Santa Catalina Mountains.
Location: Catalina State Park.
3/6/16

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