USA, Arizona, Gila, I-17 to Camp Verde, 260 east to Fossil Creek Road, 15 miles to Old Irving Power Plant site ca .25 miles from parking lot at the power plant, roadside in rocky soil.
34.406165 -111.6084
12S 0444084E 3807360N
1183 meters
3935ft
Juniper-Pine-Oak forest with some riparian trees and shrubs.
Plant herbaceous perennial, rare in this location; leaves cordate, green; flowers purple, enveloped in cordate involucre; seeds hard, red, with black stripes.
Collected under permit USDA Forest Service permit number RO-173