United States of America, Colorado, El Paso, Queen's Quarry located in mountains just west of Colorado Springs. Collection site located in quarry at rim of Queen's Canyon.
38.895345 -104.887799
13 0509730E 4305169N 7.5' Cascade Quad
2176 meters (7137ft)
Habitat is desert steppe
Large, well-branched decumbent perennial with reddish purple flowers and with extremely viscid & glandular Foliage. Only one plant found. One sprig taken from it for this collection.
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Jennifer Ackerfield, Head Curator of Biodiversity Collections (jennifer.ackerfield@botanicgardens.org)