Chamaesaracha sordida

Hairy five-eyes

Family: Solanaceae · Type: perennial

Hairy five-eyes is a naturalized perennial found in open desert woodland with gravelly soil at elevations around 1,550 meters. Flowering from March to October, this plant produces cream flowers with complex coloration, each about 10 to 15 millimeters in diameter, featuring pale yellow, greenish, or purple midstripes and a deeper yellow basal spot. Growing with decumbent to suberect stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall, the plant is characterized by herbage covered in unbranched, mostly gland-tipped hairs. Its leaves are subsessile or petioled, 15 to 40 millimeters long, oblanceolate to diamond-shaped with margins that are entire to slightly lobed and sometimes wavy. The fruit is round, measuring 5 to 8 millimeters in diameter.

Habitat: gravelly soil, open desert woodland

Bloom period: Mar-Oct

Elevation: 1550 m

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