This particular plant grows as a native in the beautiful rhyolite lava canyon areas of southwest Idaho. It blooms usually in late spring...Read More, and is accompanied by desert paintbrush, pediocactus, various prickly pear cactus, desert dandelion, balsam root, various penstemons, and other desert blooming plants. When the rains are good, the canyon rims and slopes are covered with carpets of this and the other flowers. One of the best scenes you will find in our northern Great Basin Desert, and particularly the Owyhee Desert. I am not sure if this has ever been grown in cultivation, but would be worth it just for the beautiful blooms.
This particular plant grows as a native in the beautiful rhyolite lava canyon areas of southwest Idaho. It blooms usually in late spring...Read More