A low growing, yellow-flowered annual plant. It is native to the desert and scrub habitat of the region where Arizona, California, and Nevada meet. It is a roughly hairy annual herb growing in a low patch on the ground, sometimes producing an erect stem from the basal rosette. The herbage is gray-green to reddish green. The leaves are lance-shaped and up to 3 centimeters long. The nodding inflorescence produces flowers with yellow petals 2 to 13 millimeters long, each with small red markings near the bases. The fruit is a straight to tightly coiled capsule.

Santa Catalina Mountains
Sabino Canyon Recreation Area
Location: Near junction of Rattlesnake and Breakfast Canyons
3/12/17

Notes: Rattlesnake Canyon Picnic Area 2/27/19

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