Purple Haze Flowers
by Ruth Jolly
Title
Purple Haze Flowers
Artist
Ruth Jolly
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Purple wildflowers come to bloom in the desert in the spring to brighten the barren landscape. These add a pop of purple color to the Sonoran desert. This Arizona Lupine is an annual, Ephemeral spring herb of the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. Grows in years with adequate rainfall. Absent in drought years. Occasionally plants reach nearly 1 meter tall. Grows mostly erect. Their flowers are Pink-purple pea flowers sometimes with one or more white petals. The flowers appear on a verticle spike and open mostly from February to April. the leaves are palmately compound with the wider leaflets arranged radially. Nearly free of hairs on both upper and lower surfaces, unlike Coulter's Lupine which has hairy leaves and darker purple flowers. A common wildflower of mostly sandy soils in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and the Mojave Desert in California and Nevada. Included in seed mixes for roadside revegetation. Bean capsules split open explosively as each valve twists in opposite directions - the ten or so bean seeds are thus ejected a meter or more away from the parent plant. Fine Art America watermark will not appear on purchased artwork.
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April 13th, 2013
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