About Tiquilia palmeri (A.Gray) A.T.Richardson
Tiquilia palmeri is a woody perennial herb that grows a shaggy-haired stem with white bark. Its clustered leaves bear small, hairy, wrinkled leaf blades that are rarely more than one centimeter long; these blades grow on longer petioles. The inflorescence is made up of clusters of flowers that grow from the leaf axils. Each individual flower has a bell-shaped corolla, which can be purple, lavender, or bluish, and reaches up to one centimeter in length, with a short tubular throat. This plant is the main host plant for the rare Coachella Valley grasshopper, Spaniacris deserticola.
