109. HUMMINGBIRD TRUMPET Evening-primrose Family _Zauschneria garrettii_
One of the late blooming plants in Zion National Park is the Hummingbird Trumpet, also called Fire-chalice, or sometimes the Wild Fushia. It can often be found on the Canyon Overlook Trail or on the West Rim Trail at elevations near 6,000 feet.
It can be identified by the narrow oval leaves pointed and toothed, and the fushialike flowers, narrowly funnel-shaped, with the pistil and stamens extending beyond the petals.
The brilliant scarlet of this flower in fairly dense clusters makes a very attractive display in late August and September.
Common Name Scientific Name Figure Number A
Alfilera Erodium circutraium 48 American Harebell Campanula rotundifolia 92 Antelope Bitterbrush Purshia tridentata 34 Arnica, Heartleaf Arnica cordifolia 103 Arrowleaf Balsamroot Balsamorhiza sagittata 106 Aster, Purple Aster sp. 96
Balsamroot, Arrowleaf Balsamorhiza sagittata 106 Baneberry, Western Actaea arguta 20 Bearberry Honeysuckle Lonicera involucrata 90 Beavertail Cactus Opuntia basilaris 61 Bitterbrush, Antelope Purshia tridentata 34 Bittercress Cardamine hirsuta 108 Bitterroot Lewisia rediviva 14 Blackbrush Coleogyne ramosissima 35 Blazingstar, Desert Mentzelia multiflora 57 Bluebells, Mountain Mertensia ciliata 78 Bluedicks Dichelostemma pulchellum 4 Buckhorn Cholla Cactus Opuntia acanthocarpa 62 Buckwheat, Wild Eriogonum umbellatum 8 Buffaloberry, Roundleaf Shepherdia rotundifolia 65 Bush Cinquefoil Potentilla fruticosa 36 Buttercup, Sand Ranunculus juniperinus 21 Buttercup Ranunculus sp. 16 Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa 75
Cactus Fruit Opuntia engelmannii 64 Calypso Orchid Calypso bulbosa 11 Cardinalflower, Western Lobelia splendens 93 Cinquefoil, Bush Potentilla fruticosa 36 Chokecherry Prunus virginiana 40 Cliffrose, Stansbury Cowania stansburiana 33 Columbine Aquilegia sp. 17 Coneflower Rudbeckia occidentalis 25 Creosotebush Larrea tridentata 50 Curlycup Gumweed Grindelia squarrosa 95
Deathcamas, Mountain Zigadenus elegans 7 Desertbeauty Dalea Dalea johnsoni 46 Desert Blazingstar Mentzelia multiflora 57 Desert Globemallow Sphaeralcea ambigua 53 Desert Marigold Baileya multiradiata 101 Desert Princesplume Stanleya pinnata 26 Desert Sage Salvia carnosa 80