Coulter's Spiderling (Boerhavia coulteri)

   

• Common English Names: Coulter's Spiderling
• Common Spanish Names: Mochis, Juaninipili
• Scientific Name: Boerhavia coulteri (beer-HAH-vee-uh COWL-ter-eye)
• Family: Nyctaginaceae (Four-o'clock Family)
• Geographic Range: Desert scrub, mostly in the Sonoran Desert, in southern California, Baja California, Sonora, and Arizona into southwestern and south-cental New Mexico near Las Cruces.
• Description: Annual herb, often much to profusely branched throughout, normally minutely puberulent; leaves mostly in basal half of plant, lanceolate, ovate to deltate-ovate, usually glabrous, green with paler underside, margins sinuate to crisped, inflorescence unevenly branched 2 to 5 times, strongly ascending, terminating with spicate or racemose clusters of white to pale pink, campanulate flowers.

Last Update: 7 Oct 2013