Arroyo Fameflower

Plants erect, to 6 dm. Leaves to 3 cm × 3 mm × 2 mm. Flowers: sepals green, often pinkish to reddish, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 6-8 mm; petals pale pink to purple, oval to obovate, 8-10 mm. Capsules ovoid-conic, 9-18 mm. Seeds brown, 2 mm.

N.Mex., Tex.; n Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas).

Flowering and fruiting Aug-Sep.

Desert scrub; 1300-1600m.

Talinopsis frutescens A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1. 15
A shrub-like plant, IS— 6 dm. high, with slender stems and branches; leaves fleshy, linear, i-50 mm. long, 1-2 mm. thick; cymes few -flowered, the branches short, angled; flowers sessile; sepals ovate or elliptic-ovate, 7-8 mm. long, 4.5-5.2 mm. broad, obtuse, several-nerved; corolla purple; petals oval or somewhat obovate, 9-10 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad; anthers oblong; style shorter than tie ovary; stigmas dilated; capsule fusiform, 10-16 mm. long, mm. in diameter; seeds uncinate or arcuate, 2 mm. long, 1 mm. thick, brown, the surface granulate.
:ntain valleys. 17 miles east of the Rio Grande, New Mexico. Distribution: Western Texas and New Mexico to Mexico.