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El Paso County Wildflower Project - Desert Prince's Plume - Bob Falcone

Desert Prince's Plume

Bloom Season: May - First Frost

Habitat: Its habitat consists of dry foothills, open plains, hillsides, and scrublands. It thrives in well-drained, sandy or gravelly soils and is well known for accumulating selenium from fine-textured soils derived from shale and mudstone.

Photography Notes: Photographer-friendly

Credits: Hiking Bob, 6 July

Stanleya pinnata is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known as desert prince's-plume.[2] It is a perennial herb or shrub native to North America.

The plant is native to the western Great Plains and western North America.[3] It occurs in many types of open habitat, including deserts, chaparral, foothills, rocky cliffs, sagebrush, and prairie. It prefers alkali- and gypsum-rich soils.[4]

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Desert Prince's Plume (non-native) is one of many wildflowers featured in the El Paso CO Wildflower Project, a community-built field guide documenting the wildflowers of El Paso County, Colorado.