Mortonia sempervirens A.Gray

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Mortonia is a small genus of flowering shrubs known as saddlebushes, sand paper bush or mortonias. These are rough, thorny, hairy shrubs with leathery leaves and panicles of fleshy white to purplish flowers. They bear nutlets containing 1 seed each. They are native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where they are most abundant in dry regions.

Selected species:

• Mortonia greggii
• Mortonia scabrella
• Mortonia sempervirens
• Mortonia utahensis

Mortonia (plant) - Wikipedia

 

Shrubs 0.6–1.5 m. Leaves: blade oblong-elliptic to narrowly obovate, 3–5 × 1.5–2 mm, length 2–2.5 times width, rigid, base rounded, margins not thickened, revolute, apex narrowly obtuse to acute, mucronate, surfaces usually scabridulous, rarely glabrous. Inflorescences cymose racemes. Flowers: sepals deltate, 1 mm; petals oblong, 2 mm. Fruits 5–6 mm.

Flowering spring; fruiting summer. Rocky limestone hills, ledges, stony prairies; 500–1800 m; Tex.; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora).

In the flora area, Mortonia sempervirens occurs in trans-Pecos Texas.

Mortonia sempervirens in Flora of North America @ efloras.org

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