Boerhaavia anisophylla

Boerhaavia anisophylla Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 171. 1859
Boerhaavia Palmeri S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 18: 142. 1883.
Perennial, from a thick woody root; stems few or numerous, ascending or procumbent, 1.5-5 dm. long, sparsely branched, the branches slender, grayish, densely puberulent below and hirtellous or rarely glandular-hirtellous, puberulent or glandular-pub erulent above; petioles stout, 2-10 mm. long; leaf-blades oval, broadly deltoid, oval-ovate, broadly ovate, or
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oblong, 1-3 cm. long, 0.5-2 cm. wide, cordate or rounded at the base, broadly rounded to obtuse or rarely acute at the apex, entire 6r sinuate, coriaceous, green above, glaucous beneath, scaberulous or short-hirtellous, glabrate in age, minutely brown-punctate beneath; inflorescence cymose, much branched or sparingly branched, the branches slender, glandular-puberulent,
the flowers subsessile or short-pedicellate, in few-flowered glomerules, the bracts lanceolate or ovate, acuminate or attenuate, thin, persistent, purplish-red, ciliate; perianth bright purplish-red, 8-13 mm. broad, puberulent outside; stamens 5; fruit obovoid-oblong, rounded at the apex, glabrous, 5-angulate, the angles broad, rounded, smooth, the narrow sulci smooth.
Type locality: Entrance of the Great Canyon of the Rio Grande, Texas. Distribution: Dry rocky hillsides, extreme western Texas to Chihuahua and Nuevo Le6n.