United States, California, Imperial, Chocolate Mountains, old Niland-Blythe Rd. between Beal Well and Surveyors Pass, c. 1 mile SW of Surveyors Pass
33.39555 -115.30267 +-100m.
33° 23.733m N; 115° 18.16m W
Augustine Pass 7.5’ Q.
599 meters
1965ft.
Large wash at foot of rocky hills, with Larrea, Krameria bicolor, K. erecta, Encelia farinosa, Hyptis, Sphaeralcea ambigua, Senegalia, Olneya, Lycium andersonii, Ephedra californica, etc.
Scarce annual in wash; just beginning to flower, c. half only in bud. Fls. blue-lavender with dark guidelines, bilaterally symmetrical, stamens exserted.