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| − | '''''Hyptis emoryi''''' ('''desert lavender''') is a large, multi-stemmed [[shrub]] species of [[flowering plant]] in the [[Lamiaceae]]. The genus ''[[Hyptis]]'' is commonly known as the bushmints.
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| − | It is one of the favored plants of [[honeybee]]s in early spring in the southwest deserts of [[North America]].
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| − | ==Description==
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| − | Desert lavender is a medium to tall cold tender perennial shrub found in the [[southwestern United States]] in [[Arizona]], [[Nevada]], [[California]], and northwestern Mexico in [[Sonora]] and [[Baja California]].
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| − | It is a multi-stemmed shrub reaching 15–18 ft in optimum locations. It has violet-blue flowers up to 1 in, in leaf axils. The flowers are profuse along the main stem and side branches and is an [[aroma compound|aromatic]] attractor of the [[honeybee]] and other species. Leaves are oval and a whitish gray-green-(in deserts), serrated margins, hairy, and 2-3 in. It is found in dry washes, and on rocky slopes, up to 3000 ft (900 m). It is evergreen or cold deciduous, depending on location.
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| − | ==Distribution and habitat==
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| − | It occurs mostly in areas with a water source; in the southwestern US deserts it is commonly in the dry washes, intermixed with other species.
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| − | In the ''"[[Creosote Bush]] scrub"'' [[Yuma Desert]]-(western Sonoran Desert) of southwest Arizona, it is found with the palo verde, ''[[Bebbia]]'', ''[[Encelia farinosa]]'', desert ironwood (''[[Olneya tesota]]''), ''[[Lycium andersonii]]'' (wolfberry or Anderson thornbush), ''[[Psorothamnus spinosus]]'' (a type of smoke tree), and ''[[Acacia greggii]]'', as some common associated species of the washes, elevation dependent.
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| − | In Arizona, found from central to southwestern Arizona of the [[Sonoran Desert]]; in northwest Arizona found in regions of the Mojave Desert. In southern California and Nevada, desert lavender is found in southern regions of the [[Mojave Desert]] and the [[Colorado Desert]] of southeast California.
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| − | File:Hyptis emoryi 1.jpg
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| − | ==References==
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| − | *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?4745,4761,4762 Jepson Manual Treatment]
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| − | *[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=HYEM USDA: NRCS: Plants Profile ''Hyptis emoryi'']; [http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=Arizona&statefips=04&symbol=HYEM Arizona county range]; [http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=California&statefips=06&symbol=HYEM California]; [http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=Nevada&statefips=32&symbol=HYEM Nevada]
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| − | *{{CalPhotos|Hyptis|emoryi}}
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| − | *[http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=HYEM] - Lady Bird Johnson–''"Wildflower Center"''
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | *[http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Lamiaceae/Hyptis_emoryi.jpg Photo-stems & flowers]; [http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Lamiaceae/Hyptis_emoryi.html Article] - desert-tropicals.com–''"Desert Tropicals"''
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| − | *[http://www.delange.org/Lavender/Dsc00015.jpg Photo: Rocky wash: w/[[Bebbia]]-(dried), [[Brittlebush]]-in yellow bloom, and [[Saguaro]] on plain]; [http://www.delange.org/Lavender/Lavender.htm Article, Synopsis, and photo gallery] - delange.org—''"Arizona Wild Flowers"''
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| − | [[Category:Flora of Arizona]]
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