Spreading Dogbane Flower Spreading Dogbane Plant Spreading Dogbane Leaves Chihuahua Pines Picnic Area 6/13/16 Spreading Dogbane Flower Chihuahua Pines Picnic Area 6/13/16 Spreading Dogbane Flower Chihuahua Pines Picnic Area 6/9/16 Spreading Dogbane Flower Chihuahua Pines Picnic Area 6/13/16 Spreading Dogbane Leaves Chihuahua Pines Picnic Area 6/13/16 Spreading Dogbane Stem Chihuahua Pines Picnic Area 6/13/16 Spreading Dogbane Plant


Wildflowers of Southern Arizona


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Spreading Dogbane.
Apocynum androsaemifolium.
Dogbane (Apocynaceae) family.

Plant: perennial herb; stems erect, 2-5 dm tall, dichotomously branched. Leaves: glabrous to sparsely hairy above, sparsely to densely hairy below, ovate to lanceolate, those along the main stem broader and drooping, larger ones 25-60(-75) mm long, 15-35(-40) mm broad, the petioles 1-5 mm long. INFLORESCENCE: cymose, terminal and axillary. Flowers: calyx lobes ovate to lanceolate, 1-3 mm long; corolla white, occasionally with pink to red veins, (4.5-)5-8 mm long, campanulate, the lobes spreading to reflexed. Fruit: 6-15 cm long, narrow, terete. SEEDS numerous, comose. Misc: Mostly in forests at higher elevations.

Santa Catalina Mountains.
Location: Beside access road to Marshall Gulch Trail at entrance to a parking area.
7/16/15

Notes: Chihuahua Pines Picnic Area - in wash near picnic tables. 6/9/16, 6/13/16

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