| Mesa Horkelia |
| Horkelia cuneata var. puberula |
| Family: Rosaceae (Rose) |
| Flowers — color: white, size: 1/2", type: 5 petals |
Mesa Horkelia has five narrow oblong white petals, about 3/8–5/8" wide. The flower's core is yellowish. A flower stalk rises or spreads from the base and forms a panicle, a multi-branched cluster holding the blooms on pedicels, short stems.
Habit:
Mesa Horkelia is a perennial herb and variant of wedge-leaf horkelia. It begins as a basal rosette and may rise and become bushier with sufficient resources. Fern-like pinnate leaves have up to twelve pairs of leaflets plus one terminal. The leaflets are oval and coarsely toothed. Stems have fine hairs and leaflets even finer.
The leaves and form resemble filarees (originally from Europe, but now widespread). Where the filarees have a complex notched leaf, the horkelia leaf stem has opposing leaflets, terminated by a complex leaf. Horkelias produce fine white flowers on a separate long stem; filarees produce lavender flowers on a short stem.
Open sunny areas in grassland, chaparral, and woodland.