Chamaesaracha conoides

Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Forb/Herb General: Copiously branched, glandular-pubescent plant with ascending or slightly decumbent stem 10-40 cm long, viscid and often discolored with adhering soil and debris. Leaves: Numerous, lance-ovate to broadly ovate, blades 4-18 mm wide, 1-3.5 cm long, rounded to acute at apex, cuneately narrowed to narrowly winged petiole, margin entire, undulate, occasionally pinatifid. Flowers: Pedicels 1-2.5 cm long, glandular-hirsute, calyx 3-4 mm deep, teeth 1-1.5 mm long, ascending to erect, lanceolate, triangular; corolla rotate 10-15 mm in diameter, greenish yellow to purplish, densely pubescent in throat, stamens 3-5 mm long, erect, filaments glabrous, yellowish anthers 2 mm long. Fruits: Dry berries, globose 5-6 mm diameter, glabrous, pale yellow to whitish. Ecology: Found on roadsides, grassy plains, rocky hillsides and mesas from 3,500-5,500 ft (1067-1676 m); flowers April-August. Notes: Told apart from C. coronopus by its herbage which is composed for simple hairs intermingled with gland-tipped ones, making it more or less viscid. Ethnobotany: Unknown Etymology: From Greek for low or dwarf and Saracha, a genus in Solanaceae from South America, conoides is cone like. Synonyms: None Editor: SBuckley, 2010