USA, Arizona, Maricopa, Cultivated at Desert Botanical Garden, 33 deg 27'33'' N, 111 deg 56'35'' W, ca 1200 feet, accession number 1972 0039 0101, cultivated plant not of known wild origin.
33.459167 -111.943056
33° 27' 33'' N 111° 56' 35'' W
366 meters
1200ft
Plants suckering, with leaves glaucous gray-green, inflorescence paniculate, dense, flowers musky smelling, much nectar (2 pm), ovary tapered towards bottom, filaments erect, flowers green with tepal tips drying and yellowish, incurved, with anthers protruding pre- and during antesis, filaments and style green flecked with maroon, anthers green-yellow; measurements after Gentry (1982), in mm, pre- anthesis: tl=79, o=37x10, n=7, tu=10x18, fil ins=7,5, fil=57, a=25, tep=23x7,4 (outer), 21x6,3.5 (inner), sty=81.