WILDFLOWERS OF NEW MEXICO

 

Erect to spreading, branching stems 6–20-inches tall are covered with spikes of pale to dark purple to violet, trumpet-shaped flowers. Note the purple-spotted flowers with short floral tubes, about 1/2-inch long, purple anthers, and glandular-hairy stems.


FLOWERS: July–October. Narrow, spike-like clusters densely crowded on short branch tips from the stem; trumpet-shaped flowers have floral tubes 3/16–5/8-inch (5–15 mm) long that spread into 5 lobes with purple marks and pointed tips. Stamens with style and blue anthers extend beyond the petals.


LEAVES: Alternate. Lower blades deeply pinnately divided with narrow segments; upper blades linear, narrow, entire or with few lobes.


HABITAT: Sandy, gravelly soils of grasslands, roadsides, disturbed areas; pinyon-juniper, ponderosa-oak woodlands.


ELEVATION: 4,500–8,500 feet.


RANGE: AZ, CO, NM.


SIMILAR SPECIES: Iron Skyrocket; I. laxiflora, nearly statewide, has a wide-spreading, loose cluster of flowers with short tubes and hairless upper stems. The 6-inch tall Dwarf Ipomopsis, I. pumila, in much the same range and habitat, has woolly stems and leaves, and flowers with floral tubes 3/16–3/8-inch (4–8 mm) long. Pale Trumpets, I. longiflora, nearly statewide, has flower tubes 1–2-inches (25–50 mm) long tube.


NM COUNTIES: Western half of NM in low-to mid-elevation, dry habitats: Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Dona Ana, Grant, Los Alamos, Luna, McKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Torrance, Valencia.

MANY-FLOWERED  IPOMOPSIS

IPOMOPSIS MULTIFLORA

Phlox Family, Polemonaiceae

Perennial herb

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  1. 1.Stems covered with glandular-hairs (left arrow).

  2. 2.Leaves divided into narrow segments (right arrow).

Trumpet-shaped flowers have floral tubes about 1/2-inch long (arrows) .

Crowded spikes of flowers with purple anthers that extend outside the floral tube (arrow).

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