Collomia

Photo found at the USDA plant data base: http://plants.usda.gov/

Scientific name: Collomia grandiflora (Hitchcock and Cronquist:367)

Common Names: Salmon-Colored Collomia (Haskin:287) Grand Collomia, and largeflower mountain trumpet. (http://www.hear.org/gcw/html/autogend/species/5007.HTM)

This site was created in June 14, 2006 by Alyssa Goss.

"Collomia Grandiflora Dougl.  Stem erect, generally unbranched, rarely much branched, 3-8 dm. tall;  lower leaves long (2-8 cm.) narrow; leaves immediately beneath head of flowers, broader, minutely stiff-hairy; flowers trumpet-shaped, 16-22 mm. long, salmon-yellow, in a dense terminal head, with smaller heads sometimes in leaf-axils; bracts subtending the flowers, sticky-glandular; anthers blue.  Common in fields and on open hillsides (Handbook of Northwestern Plants by Gilkey_Dennis, 338)."

(database found at http://plants.usda.gov/)

Internet Links:

Hyperlink	Description
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/b98_map?genus=Collomia&species=grandiflora	On this web site you will find a map showing where Collomia are usually found.
http://www.hear.org/gcw/html/autogend/species/5007.HTM	go to the website to find data given by the University of Idaho at the plants materials center in Pullman, WA.
http://www.calacademy.org/research/botany/wildflow/names/2022105f.htm	go to this site for more pictures and a brief description of the plant.

Historical References:

Observer	Date	Reference	Description
David Douglas	October 5th 1826	Douglas 2003 (1916):xxx	I saw indians cooking in the mush or something

Photographs:

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Collomia: not in bloom (http://plants.usda.gov/)	http://www.nawwal.org/~mrgoff/photojournal/2002/sum/06-26collomia2.html	http://www.nawwal.org/~mrgoff/photojournal/2002/sum/06-26collomia3.html	http://www.timetotrack.com/jay/socal/collomg.htm

Video Clips:

Hyperlink	Description
Collomia MPG	Lynda Boyer discusses Collomia in the field.

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