''Tiquilia palmeri'' is a species of flowering plant in the

borage family Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees and herbs in 146, to 156 genera with a worldwide distribution. The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single family of the orde ...

known by the common names Palmer's crinklemat and Palmer's tiquilia. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in sandy desert areas.

Description

''Tiquilia palmeri'' is a woody perennial herb producing a white-barked, shaggy-haired stem. The clustered leaves have small, hairy, wrinkled blades rarely more than a centimeter long which are borne on longer petioles. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

is a cluster of flowers borne in the leaf axils. Each flower has a bell-shaped purple, lavender, or bluish corolla up to a centimeter long with a short, tubular throat. This is the main host plant for the rare Coachella Valley grasshopper (''Spaniacris deserticola'').BLM
Coachella Valley Grasshopper.
Species Accounts: Coachella Valley Desert Conservation Area Plan. Page E-11.

References

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment of ''Tiquilia palmeri''UC Photos gallery — ''Tiquilia palmeri''
palmeri Flora of the California desert regions Flora of Arizona Flora of Baja California Flora of the Coachella Valley Flora of Nevada Flora of Riverside County, California Flora of Sonora Flora of the Sonoran Deserts Natural history of the Colorado Desert Natural history of the Mojave Desert North American desert flora Least concern plants {{Asterid-stub