WILDFLOWERS OF NEW MEXICO

Stems reach 24 inches tall and have a distinct basal rosette before flowering with numerous narrow, hairy leaves lining the stems. Note the pale-yellow, funnel-shaped flowers, hairy on the inside, and with smooth, rounded lobes that spread as wide as the tube is long.

FLOWER: April–June. Flowers pale yellow, darkening with age, funnel-shaped with a wide throat and lobes spreading to 3/4 inch diameter (20 mm); tube 5/16-inch long (8 mm) with rounded lobes to 3/8 inch wide (10 mm).

LEAVES: Basal rosette may persist into blooming but usually withers. Leaves alternate on stem, numerous, crowded. Blades linear to narrowly oblong, reaching 1 1/8 inches long (35 mm) by 3/16-inch wide (5 mm); surfaces covered with flat-lying hairs, margins lined with long hairs.

HABITAT: Sandy, gravelly loam, meadows, slopes, roadsides; pinyon-juniper, pine-oak, ponderosa-fir forests.

ELEVATION: 5,100–9,300 feet.

RANGE: AZ, NM, TX.

SIMILAR SPECIES: 8 species of puccoons in NM. Fringed Puccoon, L. incisum, at lower elevations statewide, has large, fringed petal-like lobes. The smaller flowers of Many-flowered Puccoon, L. multiflorum, statewide, are hairy on the outside and have smooth, oval lobes.

NM COUNTIES: In central and southern NM mountains at mid- to high elevation habitats: Catron, Cibola, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Otero, San Miguel, Sandoval, Sierra, Socorro, Valencia.