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Desert chicory is a glabrous
annual that grows to 60" tall and has somewhat weak, 1-several branching
hollow stems and large showy white flowers striped with rose on the underside
of the rays. The basal leaves are pinnatifid to 8" long and
the upper are shorter, pinnatifid or entire, and auriculate clasping.
It is common in creosote bush scrub and joshua tree woodland and
may be found in both deserts, often seen entangled in and growing up through
the branches of other shrubs and using them for support, preferring gravelly
and sandy desert soils and blooming from February to May. These
pictures were taken in Joshua Tree National Park.
Click here for Latin name derivations: 1) Rafinesquia
2) neomexicana.
Pronunciation: raf-in-ES-kee-a nee-o-mex-i-KAY-na.
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