| Scientific Name | Mimosa strigillosa | ||||||||||||
| Family Name | Bean ( Fabaceae ) | ||||||||||||
| Pealike Flowers
Low sprawling perennial. Forms mats densely covered with stiff bristles that are not prickly to the touch. Flower fragrant, petals 5 minute; stamens usually 10, conspicuously exserted, filaments pink to lavender-rose; anthers conspicuously tipped with yellow pollen. Flowers numerous, congested in small globelike of somewhat elongated spike at tip of leafless stalk. Foliage is sensitive to the touch and will quickly fold when disturbed Leaves alternate, longstalked, the blade divided into 4-8 pairs of small segments, each segment again divided into 10-15 usually smaller leaflets. Powerpuff is different than other Mimosa species in that the bristles along the stem are not prickly and fruit is a flatted pod rather than more rounded. Everitt et al describe fruit as "oblong, jointed, pubescent legume". | |||||||||||||
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Reference: Niehaus, Ripper, Savage Peterson Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers p. 326 Geyata Ajilvsgi Wildflowers of Texas p. 315 Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller Texas Wildflowers p. 137 Diffficult to differentiate between species. Everitt, Drawe and Lonard Field Guide to the Broad-Leaved Herbaceous Plants of South Texas p. 137 | |||||||||||||
April - November
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Seedpod |
| Photo depicts rounded, or oblong, seedpod. This would suggest that this flower is a Mimosa species more like 'Sensitive Briar' M. nuttallii than 'Powderpuff' M. strigillosa |