Day 239: Varied-leaf Collomia will put your botany powers to the test. It lives up to its common name by exhibiting multiple leaf forms on any given plant. Near the tips, Collomia heterophylla's foliage will consist of hairy leaves which are almost always entire, i.e., not divided into lobes and having smooth edges. Further down the stem, they are often strongly divided, even lacy in appearance. The flower is a long and very slender tube (pink or sometimes white) terminating in five open-faced lobes surrounding a white/yellow eye. Striking in close-up and fairly common in the Park, this wildflower often goes unnoticed because of its diminutive size.
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