Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Other & Bicolor ), 0 by htop

htop wrote:
Gray Five Eyes, Gray False Nightshade, Ground Saracha and Prostrate Ground-Cherry (Chamaesaracha conioides or coniodes), Solanaceae Family, native, perennial, blooms May through September

Gray Five Eyes (Chamaesaracha conioides or coniodes) is a native plant that is found in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. It can tolerate more shade than other Chamaesaracha species. A low, reclining plant, it is typically densely hairy and emerges from a woody rhizome. It is sticky to the touch due to glandular hairs on its foliage. Its leaves are up to 2 1/8 inches long and 3/4 inch wide, wavy, shallowly toothed to deeply lobed. It produces1/2 inch wide white to pale yellow to yellowish-green blooms that have darker stripes from the center to the rim. The petals are sometimes tinged with purple on the outer edges of the lobes. It produces white fruit.

Distribution:
http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=Texas&statefip...

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/vpt_map_name?reg=5,6,7,8,...)+Britt.

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/134602/index.html

The corolla is about .5 inch across. It has 5 raised hairy areas in the center.