(As of 2007: this is being recognized as Chylismia parryi; our local floras have not caught up with that change.)Camissonia parryi (Watson) Raven (syn. Oenothera parryi Watson), a Virgin-Mojave endemic species, occurring only in Utah's Washington County and adjoining Arizona. Named originally by Sereno Watson for Charles Parry, one of the earliest botanists to explore the St. George area.With sufficient summer rains, this species can persist and flower again in the fall, and since its original leaves have mostly withered away at that point, it then looks like something that is quite different than what is pictured above (Marcus Jones even gave it a different name in 1895 based on a fall morphotype: Oenothera tenuissima).May 2, 2004, near the UT-AZ border, Washington County, Utah, approx. 2780 ft elev.There are as many weed species as natives in this picture.
