General: Heartleaf Twistflower (Streptanthus cordatus)
is a small perennial herb with a basal rosette of leaves and usually a
single flower stalk. The leaves a clasping, elongate, and toothed
with prickly points. The flower is purple, long and thin, with a forked, two-lobed stigma.
Heartleaf Twistflower is an uncommon component of vegetation communities in dry,
well-drained gravelly soils in the middle-elevation mountains in the Upper Sonoran (Pinyon-Juniper
Woodland) and Transition (Yellow Pine Forest) life zones.
Family: Mustard Family (Brassicaceae).
Other Names: Jewelflower |