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Acrolasia albicaulis
Mentzelia albicaulis. Synonym: Acrolasia albicaulis. (White-Stemmed Mentzelia)
Loasaceae (Loasa Family)

Desert, semi-desert. Openings. Spring.
McElmo Canyon, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, April 25, 2009 and Utah near Four Corners, April 17, 2010.

 
Acrolasia albicaulis
Mentzelia albicaulis. Synonym: Acrolasia albicaulis. (White-Stemmed Mentzelia)
Loasaceae (Loasa Family)

Desert, semi-desert. Openings. Spring.
McElmo Canyon, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, April 18, 2010.

 

 

Nuttallia pterosperma
Mentzelia pterosperma. Synonym:  Nuttallia pterosperma. (Mentzelia)
Loasaceae (Loasa Family)

Desert, semi-desert. Openings. Spring.
East of Aneth, Utah, May 3, 2007.
Nuttallia pterosperma
Mentzelia pterosperma. Synonym:  Nuttallia pterosperma. (Mentzelia)
Loasaceae (Loasa Family)

Desert, semi-desert. Openings. Spring.
East of Aneth, Utah, May 3, 2007.

 Mentzelia pterosperma. Synonym:  Nuttallia pterosperma. (Mentzelia)
Loasaceae (Loasa Family)

Desert, semi-desert. Openings. Spring.
East of Aneth, Utah, May 3, 2007.

Nuttallia pterosperma
Mentzelia pterosperma. Synonym:  Nuttallia pterosperma. (Mentzelia)
Loasaceae (Loasa Family)

Desert, semi-desert. Openings. Spring.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, March 15, 2011.

Dried, white-to-straw colored plants over-winter and persist into the spring.  Surrounding these dried plants, you will find green, basal leaf rosettes which grew from the seeds of the dried plants  The next spring the rosettes will grow and the new plant will flower.

Nuttallia pterosperma
Mentzelia pterosperma. Synonym:  Nuttallia pterosperma. (Mentzelia)
Loasaceae (Loasa Family)

Desert, semi-desert. Openings. Spring.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, March15, 2011.