Allionia incarnata var. incarnata

Trailing windmills

Family: Nyctaginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Trailing windmills is a California native perennial found in the Mojave Desert bioregion in creosote-bush scrub at elevations below 1,600 meters. Flowering from March to September, this plant produces small pink to magenta flowers clustered in delicate, open arrangements. Growing with spreading stems 10 to 30 centimeters long that are glandular and sparsely long-hairy, it forms a low, sprawling ground cover. Its leaves are soft and tomentose, with upper leaves often smaller and more reduced, creating a distinctive layered appearance. The fruit is generally 2 to 5 millimeters long, nestled among the plant's woolly foliage.

Habitat: Creosote-bush scrub

Bloom period: Mar-Sep

Elevation: < 1600 m

Bioregions: D

California counties: San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, San Diego

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.