Ipomopsis congesta

Family: Polemoniaceae
Common Name: ballhead ipomopsis
Symbol: IPCO5
Description: PLANT: Perennial, herbaceous to woody at base, 20-60 cm tall, simple to branched at base; stems with short, white, curly or woolly hairs. LEAVES: subglabrous to short woolly, entire to pinnately or palmately lobed. INFLORESCENCE: a dense terminal head, bracteate; flowers subsessile to sessile. FLOWER: calyx 3-4 mm long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla white, the tube 3-5 mm long, the throat 0.5-1 mm wide, the lobes rounded, sometimes with pinkish flecks; stamens inserted on the throat between the lobes; filaments subequal; anthers and stigma slightly exserted. CAPSULE: 1.5-2 mm long; seeds 1-2 per locule. SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 05.