Flowers: Blooms late spring and early summer. Flowers tubular, but complex and bilaterally symmetrical; red to purple, flower tube with 5 lobes (upper lip with 2-lobes, lower lip with 3). Lobes point outward (not folding back).
Seeds: Fruit: oblong capsule. Seeds: small, black.
Habitat: Dry, well-drained sandy, gravelly, and rocky soils in higher desert habitat and into the middle-elevation mountain habitats.
Elevation: About 5,000 to 9,000 feet.
Distribution: Southern California desert mountains to Colorado and New Mexico.
Comments: This is a fairly common species at Red Rock Canyon and on Mt. Charleston. |