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| Condea emoryi | |
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| Condea emoryi–terminal flower | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Genus: | Condea |
| Species: | C. emoryi |
| Binomial name | |
| Condea emoryi | |
Condea emoryi (synonymHyptis emoryi),[1] thedesert lavender, is a large, multi-stemmedshrub species offlowering plant inLamiaceae, the mint family.
It is one of the favored plants ofhoneybees in early spring in the southwest deserts ofNorth America.
Desert lavender is a medium to tall cold tender perennial shrub found in thesouthwestern United States inArizona,Nevada,California, and northwestern Mexico inSonora andBaja California.
It is a multi-stemmed shrub reaching 8–12 ft in optimum locations.[2] It has violet-blue flowers up to 1 in, in leaf axils. The flowers are profuse along the main stem and side branches and is anaromatic attractor of the honeybee and other species. Leaves are oval and a whitish gray-green-(in deserts), serrated margins, hairy, and 2–3 in. It is found in dry washes, and on rocky slopes, up to 3280 ft (1000 m).[3] It is evergreen or cold deciduous, depending on location.
Hyptis was demonstrated to bepolyphyletic on the basis of evidence from nuclear and plastid DNA. The newcircumscription excludedHyptis emoryi, which was transferred toCondea.[1]
It occurs mostly in areas with a water source; in the southwestern US deserts it is commonly in the dry washes, intermixed with other species.
In the"creosote bush scrub"Yuma Desert-(western Sonoran Desert) of southwest Arizona, it is found with the palo verde,Bebbia,Encelia farinosa, desert ironwood (Olneya tesota),Lycium andersonii (wolfberry or Anderson thornbush),Psorothamnus spinosus (a type of smoke tree), andAcacia greggii, as some common associated species of the washes, elevation dependent.
In Arizona, found from central to southwestern Arizona of theSonoran Desert; in northwest Arizona found in regions of the Mojave Desert. In southern California and Nevada, desert lavender is found in southern regions of theMojave Desert and theColorado Desert of southeast California.
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