University of California, Riverside Plant Herbarium (UCR)
UCR0084803
UCR-BPS-269715
UCR-269715
Eucrypta micrantha (Torr.) A. A. Heller
Hydrophyllaceae
A.C. Sanders
42238
2016-03-15
2016-3-15
Jim Malusa
United States, California, Imperial, Chocolate Mountains, c. 1.1 km NNE of Beal Well, north side of a rocky hill east of old Niland-Blythe Rd.
33.3464 -115.32497
442 meters (1450ft)
Along wash edge at north foot of granitic hill; rocky slope and sandy-gravelly wash soil; wash woodland & creosote bush scrub with Hyptis, Parkinsonia flor., Olneya, Ambrosia salsola, A. dumosa, Larrea, Fouquieria, Cylindropuntia munzii, C. bigelovii, Encelia farinosa, etc.
Flowering & Fruiting
Uncommon annual on shaded slope, under shrubs at foot of rocky hillside; fls. purple with yellow tube.