PLANT: Annual herbs, 10–50 cm tall, unarmed, without tubers or stolons, sparsely to densely appressed pubescent; stems divergent, spreading to decumbent. LEAVES: simple, alternate, oblong to ovate, deeply pinnatifid, 2–5 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, ca. 2 times as long as wide, with individual lobes lanceolate, the blade submembranous; petiole 5–20 mm long; apex acute; base cuneate. I INFLORESCENCE: umbels with (1–)2–3(–6)-flowered; peduncle 5–15 mm long. FLOWERS: actinomorphic (Fig. 3E); pedicel up to 5 mm long; calyx 2.5–5 mm long, campanulate, the lobes longer than tube, linear, acute; corolla white, drying yellow, up to 8 mm wide; stamens equal; anthers 2.5–3 mm long, not adherent, straight; filaments about as long as anthers; style about as long as stamens. FRUITS: 9–14 mm in diam., green, ascending, not enclosed by calyx; seeds 2.5–3 mm in diam., many, sub-orbicular, flat, yellow-brown. NOTES: Roadsides, washes, sandy soil, dry scrub lands, juniper woodlands: Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pinal, Yavapai cos. (Fig. 2H); 600–2600 m (2000–8500 ft); May–Sep; c U.S.; native to S. Amer. In times of food shortage the Indians of west central NM boiled the berries, ground them with chili and salt, and ate them as a condiment with mush or bread (Ebeling 1986). REFERENCES: Chiang, F. and L.R. Landrum. Vascular Plants of Arizona: Solanaceae Part Three: Lycium. CANOTIA 5 (1): 17–26, 2009.