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Title	Pagosa skyrocket habitat
Alternative Title	Ipomopsis polyantha
Contact	mailto:nctcimages@fws.gov
Creator	Langton, Alicia
Description	Ipomopsis polyantha is an herbaceous biennial 12 to 24 inches (in) (30 to 60 centimeters (cm)) tall, branched from near the base above the basal rosette of leaves. Deeply divided leaves with linear segments are scattered up the stem. Stems and flower clusters are covered with glandular hairs. Flower clusters are along the stem in the axils of the leaves as well as at the top of the stem. The white flowers are 0.4 in (1 cm) long, with short corolla tubes 0.18 to 0.26 in (0.45 to 0.65 cm) long, and flaring corolla lobes flecked with purple dots (Anderson 1988, p. 3). These dots are often so dense that they give the flower a pinkish or purplish hue. The stamens extend noticeably beyond the flower tube, and the pollen is blue (Grant 1956, p. 353), changing to yellow as it matures (Collins 1995, p. 34). Seeds form a mucilaginous (secreting sticky mucous) coat after they are wet. Seeds germinate much faster in Mancos Shale soil than in potting soil (Collins 1995, p. 72). Mature seeds germinate to form rosettes that produce flowering stalks during the next growing season, or they may persist as rosettes for a year or more until conditions are right for flowering. Plants produce abundant fruits and seeds, but have no known mechanism for long-distance dispersal (Collins 1995, pp. 111–112). After seeds are mature, the plants dry up and die. We do not know how long the seeds remain viable.
FWS Resource Links	Please check species status at: http://www.fws.gov/ecos/ajax/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.action?spcode=Q2U7
Subject	Plants Endangered and/or Threatened species
Publisher	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Type	Still Image
Format	JPG
Source	NCTC Image Library
Rights	Public Domain
File Size	4860432 Bytes
Height	2592
Width	3872
Color Space	RGB
Original Format	Image
Full Resolution File Size	4860432 Bytes
Original Filename	Ipomopsis_polyantha_habitat_061411_Alicia_Langton.JPG
Full resolution	Volume264/Ipomopsis_polyantha_habitat_061411_Alicia_Langton.JPG http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/FullRes/natdiglib/Volume264/Ipomopsis_polyantha_habitat_061411_Alicia_Langton.JPG
Date created	2011-10-13
Date modified	2015-05-19