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Pholistoma auritum (Lindl.) Lilja  
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Family: Boraginaceae
Blue Fiesta-Flower, more...blue fiestaflower, desert fiestaflower
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Wiggins 1964, Jepson 1993, Kearney and Peebles 1969
Duration: Annual Nativity: Native Lifeform: Vine General: Annual with slender, weak and scrambling stems, sometimes 1 m long, uncinate-bristly on angles, herbage bright green, sparsely hispid throughout. Leaves: Oblong to ovate-lanceolate in outline, 1.5-8 cm long, 0.5-3.5 cm broad with 2-5 lobes on each side, these oblong, ovate, or nearly deltoid, usually retrorse, obtuse at tips, petioles moderately winged, auriculate-clasping. Flowers: Solitary or in 1-4 flowered cymes on pedicels 1-2.5 cm long, sparsely uncinate-hispid; calyx lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm wide, 5-7 mm long, sparsely hispid; auricles barely 1 mm long; corolla 8-12 mm broad, blue or violet; corolla scales triangular, purple, margins fimbriate; styles 2.5-3 mm long. Fruits: Capsule 4-5 mm in diameter, hispid with subulate white hairs. Ecology: Found in canyons and under bushes and trees, rocky hillsides and plains below 3,000 ft (914 m); flowers February-May. Distribution: AZ, s CA Notes: The weak and crawling stems often help to diagnose this species, as does the obtuse leaf lobes and dark spots at the base of the petals. Ethnobotany: Unknown Etymology: Pholistoma is from the Greek pholis, scale and stoma, mouth, referring to the scales in the throat of the flower, while auritum means eared, or having and ear, referring to the clasping base of the leaves. Synonyms: None Editor: SBuckley, 2010
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Developments of SEINet, Symbiota, and associated specimen databases have been supported by National Science Foundation Grants (DBI 9983132, BRC 0237418, DBI 0743827, DBI 0847966)