Trailing Four O'Clock
Allionia incarnata
This photo was taken just outside Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, April 2005 by Wikimedia User:Stan Shebs.
SPRING ANNUAL:
Begins blooming mid spring. Some plants may survive into summer blooming some more after
summer rains. Usually grows along prostrate on ground, appearing vine-like.
LEAVES: Leaves and stems are all covered with sticky, glanded hairs. Simple,
opposite leaves are mostly heart-shaped.
FLOWERS: Each 'flower' is a cluster of usually three flowers grouped together by
short bracts. The perianth is magenta-pink. Blooms mid spring and spradically through
summer and fall, moisture depending.
FRUIT: Small, flattened, odd-looking achenes, 4 mm, with edges curled.
RANGE: Common along sandy washes in Sonoran Desert.
UNARMED.
Nyctaginaceae -- Four O'Clock Family
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This photo was taken by Allan Ostling in Rackensack Canyon northeast of Phoenix on 26 Oct. 2013.
The three florets composing the inflorescence are easy to see.