Pronunciation: neh-MAH-kla-dus or-ee-en-TAY-lis
Common name: Eastern threadplant
Family: Campanulaceae (Bellflower)
Habitat: Sandy washes to 6000', creosote bush
scrub, joshua tree woodland, deserts from Inyo Co.
to Baja
Blooming period: March to May
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Nemacladus
2) orientalis
Formerly Nemacladus glanduliferus var. orientalis