Family | POLEMONIACEAE |
Genus species | Ipomopsis tenuifolia (A.Gray) V.E.Grant |
Bibliography | Aliso 3: 357 (1956) |
Native Range | nw. Mexico (Baja California Norte) |
Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
Habitat | dry, rocky slopes |
Altitude | 100-1200m |
Description | leaves narrowly linear, entire or pinnate, with few, sharply acute segments, flowers solitary in axils of upper leaves, narrowly infundibuliform, ca. 25mm long |
Size | 10-40cm |
Color | scarlet red |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
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Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-18°C cuttings in spring and late summer |
Synonyms | Gilia tenuifolia (A.Gray) A.Gray Loeselia tenuifolia A.Gray Navarretia tenuifolia (A.Gray) Kuntze |
Territory | 7 Northern America 79 Mexico (MXN Mexico Northwest) |