Wright's Spiderling (Boerhavia wrightii)

   

• Common English Names: Wright's Spiderling, Largebract Spiderling
• Common Spanish Names: Makkumi He-jewed
• Scientific Name: Boerhavia wrightii (beer-HAH-vee-uh RIGHT-tee-aye)
• Family: Nyctaginaceae (Four-o'clock Family)
• Geographic Range: Mohave and Colorado Desert regions of southern California and Nevada into Sonoran Desert of Arizona and Sonora, In the Chihuahuan Desert, in southern New Mexico, western Texas, eastern Chihuahua, southwestern Coahuila, Mexico, and in South Texas and Tamaulipas.
• Description: Herbaceous annual, erect to ascending, unbranched to few branched at maturity, densely glandular-pubescent throughout; leaves ovate-triangular, ovate to broadly lanceolate, usually pubescent, often glandular, sometimes glabrate above and below, both also often finely punctate; Inflorescence terminal, few branched, strongly ascending, without internodal bands, terminating in spicate or racemose clusters of whitish to pale pink, rarely yellow, campanulate flowers.
• Notes: This species is without sticky, viscid bands between stem nodes of the inflorescence.

Last Update: 7 Oct 2013