Status: Native
Synonyms:
Argythamia cyanophylla (Wooton & Standley) Ingram
Ditaxis cyanophylla is an herbaceous plant from a perennial woody caudex. The white flowers are about 5mm across, with five distinct petals and sepals, and stamenal filaments connate into a column. The fruit is a typical three carpellate Euphorbiaceae capsule, except that it can grow quite large to perhaps a centimeter or wider in diameter. The leaves are sessile and sparsely pubescent along the margin with dolabriform hairs (attached to the leaf in the middle of the hair.) Ditaxis cyanophylla is found at middle elevation in moist forested canyons.
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Ditaxis cyanophylla, photo Russ Kleinman, Richard Felger & Gene Jercinovic with the Gila Native Plant Society Field trip to Myers Canyon in the Pinos Altos Range, August 21, 2011
Ditaxis cyanophylla, closeup of flowering stem, photo Russ Kleinman, Richard Felger & Gene Jercinovic with the Gila Native Plant Society Field trip to Myers Canyon in the Pinos Altos Range, August 21, 2011
Ditaxis cyanophylla, 1x macro of flower, photo Russ Kleinman, Richard Felger & Gene Jercinovic with the Gila Native Plant Society Field trip to Myers Canyon in the Pinos Altos Range, August 21, 2011
Ditaxis cyanophylla, 1x macro of capsule, photo Russ Kleinman, Richard Felger & Gene Jercinovic with the Gila Native Plant Society Field trip to Myers Canyon in the Pinos Altos Range, August 21, 2011
Ditaxis cyanophylla, closeup of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Richard Felger & Gene Jercinovic with the Gila Native Plant Society Field trip to Myers Canyon in the Pinos Altos Range, August 21, 2011
Ditaxis cyanophylla, thick perennial root, photo Russ Kleinman, Richard Felger & Gene Jercinovic with the Gila Native Plant Society Field trip to Myers Canyon in the Pinos Altos Range, August 21, 2011
Ditaxis cyanophylla, 5x macro of dolabriform hairs along leaf edge, photo Russ Kleinman, Richard Felger & Gene Jercinovic with the Gila Native Plant Society Field trip to Myers Canyon in the Pinos Altos Range, August 21, 2011
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