Blazingstar

Note strongly adhesive hooked hairs on fruit. Plants on coarse gravels of dark basalt at base of roadcut for new highway across the Sa. La Brena escarpment that largely obliterated the old, one lane railroad bed that provided access to the botanically rich, exciting and very scenic climb into the Madrean highlands

low roadcut in gray tuffaceous rhyolite along grassy highway right-of-way

plants on open stretch of sandy soil in shallow drainage of wash draining coastal plain between low volcanic hills, with Lotus strigosus, Lupinus arizonicus, Datura discolor, Matelea pringlei,

blazing star

plant in coarse volcanic gravels at edge of streambed