About Psorothamnus schottii (Torr.) Barneby
This species is also referred to as Psorodendron schottii. It is a shrub that reaches a maximum height close to two meters. Its highly branched stems range in color from green to woolly gray-green, and are glandular. The leaves are linear, marked with gland pits, measure up to 3 centimeters long, and are not divided into leaflets. The inflorescence is an open raceme that holds up to 15 flowers. Each flower has a deep purple-blue pea-shaped corolla up to one centimeter long, borne in a glandular tubular calyx of sepals with pointed lobes. The fruit is a legume pod covered in glands that contains a single seed.
