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Descriptive Flora 



alternate or clustered at intervals along much branched, short, 

 spreading, creeping stems. Leaf -blades y± to long, entire, 

 oblong to spatulate, blunt tipped. Corolla small, purple or violet, 

 Vs to y± across, 5-angled, open bell-shaped, set in a circle of 5 

 fleshy sepals. Stamens 4, half the length of the corolla. Forms 

 small, spreading bunches of foliage on the stony bottoms of dry 

 creek beds, where plants are rooted in shallow dirt-filled cups of 

 flat but rough limestone rocks. Flowers blossom from June to 

 fall. 



Datura rneteloides L. Jimson Weed. Jamestown Weed. 



Devil's Trumpet. 



Wide topped, bushy, ill-scented perennial with a stout, 

 coarse, often purplish, downy stem growing from 2 to 4' high and 

 with large, white or pale yellow, fragrant, trumpet-shaped 

 flowers blossoming erect and solitary in the forks of the branches. 

 Leaves simple, alternate. Blades soft, ovate or oval-ovate, entire, 

 noticeably unequal at the base. Buds erect, resembling okra in 

 fruit. Calyx tube 5-toothed, 3 to 4" long. Corolla white or pale 

 yellow, 6 to 7 inches long, opening in the late afternoon and 

 producing a heavy odor. Stamens 5, almost as long as the 

 corolla. Pods round, bur-like, 1 to 2 inches across, thickly beset 

 with stout prickles and with a conspicuous turned back collar 

 that is formed by the long calyx tube breaking off close to the 

 base and expanding as the seed-pod develops. The pods are erect 

 when green, but when ripe the pedicel curves and droops, making 

 it easy to scatter the many seeds when the walls split open. 

 Summer and fall. In low grounds bordering ponds and streams. 

 Not common. Seeds are poisonous, and used as a narcotic by 

 some Indians. 



Bouchetia anomala (Miers) Britton & Rusby. 



Many-branched plant, 6 to 12 inches high, and bearing white 

 flowers that resemble small morning-glories. Leaves simple, 

 alternate. Blades broadly linear above, oblong elliptic or lanceo- 

 late below, y 2 to 114" long, entire. Flowers y 2 " across, broadly 



